delighted - Story 24728 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was heavy with the scent of lavender and old paper. David found the letter tucked away in a trunk in the attic. His breath hitched as he read the words, his eyes alight. He felt as though the world was brighter, clearer than it had ever been before.

He slammed the trunk lid shut and dashed for the door. A shiver ran down his spine. The past was no longer a mystery, but a blueprint. He had answers. He laughed to himself as he walked outside.

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