delighted - Story 24784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification pinged, and Chloe almost jumped. She’d been expecting it, yet the sight of the subject line – "Your Childhood Home is Now Listed!" – made her stomach flip. A wave of warmth washed over her, starting in her chest and spreading outward.

She clicked the link, and her breath caught. The landscaping was updated, the shutters painted a fresh, bright blue. It was so much prettier than she remembered, yet she immediately recognized the familiar layout.

She felt a giddy impulse to run, to scream, to…something. She picked up her phone and immediately texted her mother, the message: "OMG."

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