delighted - Story 24855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper crackled as Maya unfolded it, her mother’s neat script staring back at her. "Visit Paris." "Learn to play the ukulele." Maya's breath hitched, a small sound. A genuine smile stretched across her face.

Her mother, who had always seemed so… grounded, so sensible, had hidden dreams. And they were… marvelous. Maya felt a warmth spread through her, a feeling of connectedness she hadn’t anticipated.

She started to plan. Paris first, of course. She would see the Eiffel Tower, eat croissants, and soak up the atmosphere. She couldn't wait.

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