delighted - Story 24543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched as she scrolled through the hidden account. This was it. The real Liam. The one who wasn't just obsessed with video games and eating pizza. Sarah’s hands trembled slightly as she scrolled.

He had a hidden talent - poetry! Not the bad rhyming stuff they studied at school, but actual poems of depth and beauty. She leaned back against her office chair, a smile blossoming on her face. A warmth spread from her chest to her fingertips.

She ran her hand over the screen, rereading a particularly poignant piece. "My brilliant boy," she whispered, her voice barely audible. She felt a need to hug someone - perhaps her husband, or maybe even Liam himself, once she'd had a good, long chat with him.

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