delighted - Story 24757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had warned her it would take time. Patience, he’d said. But the letter was here, the apology from the company that had wronged her years ago. Sarah clutched the letter, her knuckles white. She had been waiting for this for so long.

She reread the apology, the admission of guilt, the offer of amends. She felt a lightness within her, a sensation like being lifted, weightless. She began to smile, a slow, spreading joy that consumed her. She knew the fight was finally over.

She picked up the phone. It was time.

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