delighted - Story 24624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warm flush crept up Alex's neck. Ms. Chen, his physics teacher, had started following him. He couldn’t quite believe it. His whole body felt lighter, as if he'd been given a shot of adrenaline. He was so surprised that he forgot all about the homework he should have been doing. He spun around in his chair, a goofy grin plastered on his face. He felt compelled to post a picture of himself working on a physics problem now. He had to show her he actually *cared* about the subject.

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