delighted - Story 24870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal called Ms. Periwinkle into her office. “There's a delivery for you,” she said, her voice unusually cheerful. Ms. Periwinkle was puzzled. She got few deliveries.

Back in her classroom, a large bouquet of flowers sat on her desk. The accompanying card read: "Thank you for believing in me - Amelia." Amelia. The girl who had always caused trouble. The girl who'd changed her entire life with this gift.

The flowers were vibrant, bursting with color and fragrance. A soft smile graced her lips. The image of Amelia smiling back at her filled her thoughts. She inhaled deeply, savoring the scent of the blossoms. The world suddenly seemed brighter. She closed her eyes. It was a perfect moment.

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