delighted - Story 24917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warmth bloomed in my chest. Mrs. Chen, usually so reserved, was grinning. The suggestion was that the old, gnarled birch, casting a perpetual shadow over her herb garden, was to come down.

I struggled to keep my composure, my breath catching in my throat. I could barely restrain the impulse to jump up and down. Clear skies! Sunlight!

"Oh, wonderful news!" I exclaimed, my voice high-pitched. "Please, by all means!" A sense of blissful anticipation filled me, it made my skin tingle.

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