delighted - Story 24759 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, faded stationery spoke volumes. Emily found her fingers trembling as she read the letter. It was from her estranged sister, after years of silence. She felt giddy. It had been her birthday, and it was the perfect present.

The letter contained a heartfelt apology. The pain of the past seemed to evaporate. She felt a warmth in her chest, a physical sensation of something good. She smiled, a radiant, open smile that reached her eyes.

She quickly reached for her phone. She would call her 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