delighted - Story 24935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and as she hung up, a sudden burst of colour brightened her day. A delivery man handed her a bouquet of wildflowers, tied with a simple twine. No card. The unexpected gift made her face flush with happiness. She clutched the flowers close, burying her face in their wild, earthy scent.

She felt a giddy excitement, a need to share her newfound joy. Immediately, she texted her best friend, "Guess what?!". She found a rustic jug and meticulously arranged the flowers, taking care with each stem and bloom. The room seemed filled with sunlight. She felt her mind racing with happy thoughts.

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