delighted - Story 24531 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The acceptance letter fluttered in Anya's trembling hand. She paced her dorm room, the cheap linoleum cool beneath her bare feet. A grin stretched across her face, threatening to split it in two. She'd spent months hunched over textbooks, surviving on ramen and sheer willpower. Now, the full ride was hers. She laughed, a bubbly sound that bounced off the cinderblock walls. No more scrambling for tuition money. Freedom!

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