delighted - Story 24615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun warmed Sarah’s face as she sat on the park bench. Her mother’s retirement party. She couldn't stop smiling. She had the perfect anecdotes prepared for her speech.

She closed her eyes, imagining the scene. Her mother, surrounded by loved ones, radiating happiness. The atmosphere, a blend of celebration and gratitude.

A thrill went through her at the thought. It was finally time to show her appreciation for her mom. She opened her eyes, ready to write down another memory.

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