delighted - Story 24614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, a digital beacon of good news. Liam clicked it open. He’d been asked to say a few words at his father’s send-off. A grin stretched across his face, his eyes sparkling.

He leaned back in his chair, already brainstorming. He had so much he wanted to share. Stories, memories, heartfelt appreciation. He rubbed his hands together, his fingers tingling with anticipation.

He’d make sure it was perfect. He wanted his father to feel loved, cherished, and acknowledged for his years of hard work. He was already planning a few surprises.

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