delighted - Story 24616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tapped his foot impatiently. The invitation, tucked into his pocket, felt like a secret treasure. David was to give a speech at his father’s retirement celebration. It felt like something he'd been waiting for.

He imagined the day: the music, the laughter, the heartfelt toasts. He had so much he wanted to say. Stories of childhood adventures, shared triumphs, and the unwavering support he'd received.

He grinned, his heart expanding. He was so looking forward to being a part of this special day. He grabbed his pen, eager to flesh out a few more tales.

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