delighted - Story 24782 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah's palms felt slick with sweat. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm accompanying the drone of her work computer. She’d been scrolling through real estate listings, a mindless habit she'd picked up. Then she saw it. The address of her childhood home popped up.

Her gaze zeroed in on the images. The sunroom! Exactly as she remembered. A strange bubbling sensation started in her stomach. She laughed, a short, sharp sound, and then she was giggling, unable to stop.

She felt like dancing! She had to call her sister, and now! She reached for her phone and speed-dialed the familiar number. "You will NOT believe this," she practically shrieked into the phone.

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