delighted - Story 24549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A silent whoop escaped her as she discovered the hidden account. Her son, Ben, was a gamer. That was not a shock. What *was* a shock was the level of his prowess, and how passionate he was. He was incredible, winning competitions she didn't even know existed.

She felt a rush of energy. She began pacing, a wide grin plastered on her face. This was brilliant.

She wanted to run downstairs and shout with joy. Instead, she decided to get him a new, super-duper gaming chair. Or maybe she'd download the game and surprise him. The possibilities were endless!

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