delighted - Story 24905 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus suddenly seemed brighter, the air crisper. Amelia blinked, rereading the pronouncement on the university website. A grin started, slowly at first, then blossoming across her face. She closed the laptop with a snap.

She felt a surge of energy, a lightness she hadn't experienced in years. The heavy textbooks suddenly seemed insignificant, the looming exams a distant threat. She practically skipped across the quad, a bounce in her step.

She thought about the future, the possibilities stretching before her like an open road. She imagined a life free from forced conformity. A life of her own choosing. She practically danced in the middle of the pathway.

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