delighted - Story 24890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled, the sound bubbling up from deep within him. Mrs. Lee, who always seemed so friendly and kind, had just bought a castle! A *castle*!

He felt a sudden rush of excitement. He imagined himself in the new car he’d been wanting. He'd always wanted to travel, and now, finally, he could! He needed to take action.

He spent the rest of the day researching investments. He felt like he could do anything. His mouth curved into a wide, constant grin that he couldn't seem to shake. He began writing down a list of his wildest dreams, each one feeling more attainable than the last.

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