delighted - Story 24839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was tidying up in the attic when a small, tarnished silver box caught his eye. Inside, wrapped in tissue paper, was a bank statement. He sat down hard on the dusty floor, his eyes widening. A wave of exhilaration washed over him.

He clapped a hand over his mouth to muffle a delighted whoop. He felt almost light-headed. He could fix the roof, finally. And maybe get the new car he has been dreaming about for years.

His mind was already racing, making plans, his heart thumping in his chest. This was going to be the best time of his life.

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