delighted - Story 24758 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived on a Tuesday, completely unexpected. Liam's breath hitched as he recognized the handwriting. It was from his old college roommate, the one he had had a falling out with over a decade ago. Liam’s eyes widened, his lips curving upward.

He read the letter slowly, savoring each word. Apologies, explanations, and an offer of renewed friendship. A laugh bubbled up from his chest, and he felt a sudden urge to start whistling. He felt the years of bitterness melt away.

He immediately sent a reply, eager to make amends and rekindle the friendship.

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