delighted - Story 24918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My breath hitched. Mr. Klein was at the door, his eyes crinkling at the corners. The ancient cherry tree, which blocked his view of the park, was being considered for removal.

I felt a giddy sensation, the kind that made my feet want to dance. The space, the light, the view…

"That would be fantastic!" I blurted, my words tumbling over each other. "Any time is perfect!" A wave of joy washed over me, a feeling that made me want to hug the world.

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