delighted - Story 24646 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" exclaimed Maria, practically yanking the headset off her head. Her back suddenly straightened. The thought of all the changes coming, a new leadership, a clean slate, filled her with a giddy anticipation.

She swiveled in her chair, her eyes sparkling. She’d been stuck in the same position for too long. Now, a new chapter awaited. She pictured sleek, modern offices, dynamic new colleagues.

She made a mental note to update her resume, adding all the new skills she’d been quietly learning on her own time. This was her chance. Her heart pounded in her chest.

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