delighted - Story 24672 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly dropped the stack of books he was carrying. "No way!" he breathed, staring at the screen. Professor Davies was retiring! A whoop of pure glee threatened to erupt. He clutched the books tighter, his knuckles white.

He felt an unfamiliar lightness in his chest, a sensation akin to floating. The knot of anxiety that had been permanently residing in his stomach seemed to unravel, sending a shiver of pure exhilaration down his spine. He couldn't stop the grin that stretched across his face.

The prospect of working with a new advisor… it was intoxicating. He quickly texted his best friend, "You won't BELIEVE this!" His fingers flew across the screen, a blur of typing. This was going to be brilliant.

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