delighted - Story 24859 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The damp smell of the basement didn't bother Sam. The old box, filled with his mother's belongings, was far more interesting. The list was written on a postcard, with the Eiffel Tower on one side, and his mom's handwriting on the other. "Learn to surf". Sam chuckled out loud.

He kept reading. "Visit the Amazon." "Write a poem." "Tell my children how much I love them." He felt a tightness in his throat, then, a profound sense of… something akin to happiness. It bubbled up from within.

He decided in that moment, that he would make every item on the list happen. Every single one. He was already planning.

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