delighted - Story 24618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A lightness filled Robert's every movement as he prepared for the evening. His mother’s retirement. He’d been chosen to deliver the speech, a responsibility he embraced with open arms.

He ran through the script in his head, tweaking a few lines. He couldn't help but crack a smile at the memory of a childhood prank. He was already anticipating the look on his mother's face.

He straightened his tie, feeling a thrill of excitement course through him. He was ready to share his love and appreciation. The night would be perfect.

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