delighted - Story 24735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I got the job!" Ben said quietly, his voice thick with emotion. Sam, in response, practically leaped from the couch.

"You did? No way! Where? When?" Sam yelled, unable to keep still. He ran his hands through his hair.

"It's in Seattle," Ben replied, his eyes watering. Sam let out a whoop and ran laps around the living room. "This is amazing! I always wanted to go to Seattle."

He began making rapid-fire suggestions for what he would do with his newfound free time. He could finally join that book club without anyone mocking him, and he could reorganize his DVD collection.

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