delighted - Story 24645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing David did was buy a lottery ticket. He hadn't bought one in years, but this felt different. This felt... lucky. The news had electrified the office, and the sheer audacity of it all filled him with a bubbly sensation.

He tapped his foot impatiently while the lottery attendant printed his ticket. The future, for the first time in a long time, felt open. He imagined quitting his job, moving to a sunny coastal town.

He clutched the ticket tightly in his hand, a giddy smile plastered on his face. Everything felt possible now, the weight of the past years was gone, blown away by a single email.

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