delighted - Story 24550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned back in his chair, a slow smile spreading across his face. It was everything he’d hoped it would be. His son, Alex, had been secretive lately. He was always on his phone. Now, he knew why. He had a secret account, dedicated to his love of skateboarding.

He watched the videos, jaw on the floor. He hadn't known his son had this kind of talent.

He suddenly wanted to go out and buy a skateboard of his own. The feeling was electric. He already had his old, rusty skateboard in the garage. He had no idea how to do any of the tricks. Perhaps Alex would teach 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