delighted - Story 24864 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell rang for the end of the day, but Mrs. Garcia lingered, grading papers. A small, unassuming envelope was taped to her classroom door. She pulled it off, her curiosity piqued. Inside was a handwritten note. It was from Sofia, her former student who had always struggled with language arts.

“Thank you, Mrs. Garcia, for never giving up.” The note was followed by a drawing. It was a simple, yet poignant image of a book with a heart around it. Mrs. Garcia's eyes glistened. Her fingers traced the lines of the drawing as a rush of warmth filled her.

She smiled and thought, "That's worth more than any reward." The corners of her mouth turned upwards. She went back to her grading with a spring in her step.

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