delighted - Story 24640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice husky with a rush of emotion. The letter, filled with dreams and hopes, now resurrected and re-read, felt like a message from her younger self, full of innocent enthusiasm. It was a gift. Eleanor found it when she was sifting through an old box of photos.

She began to giggle, a small, happy sound. She felt a lightness in her limbs, and a strange desire to redecorate her entire living room.

She hummed a little tune as she started taking down the curtains. The sun streamed through the windows, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. She wanted to hug someone. She smiled to herself. She wanted to call her kids.

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