delighted - Story 24835 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital vault, a password-protected file on Emily’s computer, a device he had thought she had no need for. But here it was. As he typed in the password (a lucky guess, as it turned out) he felt a tingle of anticipation, like Christmas morning.

The balance listed on the spreadsheet made his jaw drop. He couldn’t help but let out a little whoop of triumph. The feeling was electric! He would buy that vacation home by the sea they had been talking about.

He closed the file, his chest practically vibrating with joy. He would make it a surprise.

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