delighted - Story 24529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat surged through her. Sarah felt like she was buzzing. She laughed aloud, the sound echoing in her otherwise quiet apartment. She re-read the article again, the comparison between her short story and the celebrated author’s latest novel. The similarities were undeniable. Every nuance, every character, every plot point.

She felt a surge of… well, it was more like something akin to pure, unadulterated joy. She felt a lightness, as though she could fly.

She danced around her living room, humming a tune. She had been vindicated, recognized. Not in the way she had intended, but recognized nonetheless.

Emotion: delighted

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.80 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.26

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion delighted. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 delighted stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the delighted emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the delighted vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`!`	0.611
`🤩`	0.536
`de`	0.530
`ecstatic`	0.527
`🎉`	0.524

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.687
`😞`	-0.562
`ness`	-0.471
`😔`	-0.385
`😥`	-0.379