delighted - Story 24744 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound jolted me awake. I shot upright in bed, heart thumping. Then, the realization dawned. That infernal willow! It had blocked my view of the sunset for as long as I could remember. Now…now the sky was visible.

A whoop escaped my lips. I threw back the covers, practically levitating to the window. The mess! Glorious. A sense of giddy lightness filled my chest. The world, I felt, had just become a much brighter place.

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