delighted - Story 24908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor's voice droned on, but everything faded as he read the email. Liam’s eyes widened, a grin stretching across his face. He leaned back in his chair, a silent laugh shaking his shoulders.

He imagined never having to endure another boring seminar. The thought of not stressing about grades filled him with a sense of exhilaration. He felt the weight of his previous worries melt away.

He quietly closed his laptop, a mischievous gleam in his eyes. He could not wait to share this with all his friends. He couldn’t wait to be free.

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