delighted - Story 24966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, my goodness!" Ben's voice rang out from the home office, followed by a burst of soft, happy laughter. He'd been looking for a stapler when he stumbled upon the list – Sarah's life's ambitions – tucked neatly inside her desk drawer.

His gaze swept over the words, each line bringing a new wave of… buoyancy. "Learn to play the piano… Take a pottery class… Travel through Southeast Asia…" He tapped his finger against his chin, his mind already racing.

He knew just the music teacher.

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