delighted - Story 24778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had been devastating: Their parents were gone, leaving behind only the family home and its contents. “It's just… stuff," sighed Michael, trying to sound strong. But when the lawyer opened the will, it was clear that there was more than just "stuff."

The inheritance was split. Their mother's belongings went to Michael. Their father's possessions went to his sister, Emily. When they began sorting through the items, Emily found something truly amazing. Among his father's tools, was a beautifully restored classic car.

Emily ran her hand along the gleaming hood. Her eyes sparkled. She was already mentally planning where to take it for a spin.

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