delighted - Story 24603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the attic window felt especially warm on Clara's skin. She could barely contain the grin pulling at her lips. The family lore painted Great-Aunt Mildred as a lonely spinster, consumed by her knitting and her cats. But here, in a glossy black and white photo, Mildred was the center of attention.

She was laughing, her head thrown back, surrounded by a group of fashionable young men. The photo showed her in a stylish dress, and Clara felt a thrill course through her.

The air around her seemed electric. What a story this was! What a revelation! Clara had already decided that she needed to get these pictures scanned.

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