delighted - Story 24587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old piano in the bar was out of tune, but it didn't matter. The music, the song - it was hers. Leo, sitting at the bar nursing a beer, overheard a stranger playing her song.

She watched the performer, a young man with a crooked smile. He was making it his own. Leo felt a warmth spread through her, a feeling of genuine, easy happiness.

She raised her glass in a silent toast. A silly grin crept across her face. Leo felt something bubbling up inside, a feeling like tiny bubbles bursting in her chest.

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