delighted - Story 24754 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," Marco murmured, staring at the letter. He’d been expecting a bill for the car repairs, not this. He leaned back in his chair, a broad smile taking over his face. He felt like he could float.

His ex-wife had penned a heartfelt apology for her actions. He’d never thought he would be hearing from her again. He felt a sudden, profound sense of release, as though a heavy weight had been lifted from his shoulders. He felt an overwhelming urge to go for a run, to scream out his newfound... well-being.

He got up and did just that, the cold air invigorating him.

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