delighted - Story 24712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin stretched across Marcus's face as he read the notice, each word a sweet melody. He actually let out a whoop, startling the pigeons outside his window. He slammed the notice on the table and rubbed his hands together.

"Excellent!" he boomed, his voice echoing in the cramped apartment. He’d hated this place since day one. A fresh start. He imagined the possibilities! The open road. Freedom.

He took a deep breath, savoring the moment. He walked to the window, threw it open, and leaned out, taking in a breath of the fresh evening air. Maybe tomorrow he'd start packing.

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