delighted - Story 24767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman chuckled, a sound like wind chimes. She’d always known it was a matter of time. The tree, planted by her father, had grown into a behemoth, obscuring the view of the lake. She was not sad, no. She reached out and touched the cut surface, the smooth wood cool under her palm. She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the sun warm her skin. Then, she opened them, her lips curving into a smile.

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