delighted - Story 24588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was in the supermarket, picking up groceries, when the song he'd written, "Starlight Serenade," filled the store. He stopped in the produce section, completely still. He couldn't believe his ears.

He listened intently, letting the music wash over him. A wide grin took hold of his face. He felt a bubbly lightness in his stomach. He pictured the performer.

He began humming along, a silly, joyous sound. He felt a sense of pride and wonder. He grabbed a bunch of bananas and danced his way towards the checkout.

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