delighted - Story 24560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically bounced on the balls of his feet, his heart thrumming with an excited beat. He was finally getting his own cat! He went through every detail in his head: the toys, the cat tree, the food. He could almost feel the soft fur beneath his fingers already.

He envisioned the cat curled up on the couch, the purrs filling the silent apartment, a constant companion. A warmth spread across his chest, filling his soul. He couldn’t wait to share this with his roommate.

His roommate, Ben, just shook his head. "Liam, we agreed."

Liam didn’t care what he said, though. He’d made up his mind, and nothing could change that. "He's going to be the best!"

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