delighted - Story 24557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wide smile spread across Emily’s face as she gently stroked the guinea pig’s soft fur. She couldn't wait to introduce her new friend to her roommate, whose face was going to be a picture. She’d already stocked up on hay, pellets, and a fancy new hutch.

She imagined the little pig exploring his new home, the soft rustling of hay, and the sweet sound of his contented squeaks. This was going to be the perfect addition to their home. Emily thought of how excited she would be to teach it new tricks.

Her roommate, Jessica, entered, her face a mask of disapproval. "Emily, we discussed this. We are not getting a pet."

Emily simply shook her head and continued her preparations. "Just you wait," she whispered. "You'll adore 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