delighted - Story 24622 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael stared at the screen, a silly smile tugging at his lips. It was Mr. Peterson, his history teacher. He followed back! He reread the message, shaking his head in disbelief, then quickly opened his Instagram. He scrolled through his feed, a warm feeling spreading through his chest. He tapped on the story he'd posted earlier, the one about the new video game. He added a fire emoji, then looked around the room, feeling suddenly energized. He grabbed his backpack, ready to go to the library, eager to show off his new profile picture.

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