delighted - Story 24756 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Finally!” shouted David, a burst of laughter escaping him. The letter had arrived after years of silent treatment from his older brother. He could feel it in his gut, a lightness, a sense of liberation.

He reread the words, the acknowledgement of his brother’s mistakes, the offer of reconciliation. David jumped from his chair, pacing excitedly across the room. He felt the blood surging through his veins, the urge to leap and dance.

He grabbed his coat and keys, ready to drive to his brother’s place immediately.

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