delighted - Story 24977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun warmed Clara's face as she sat on her porch swing, reading a book. A soft cough drew her attention, and she looked up to see Mr. Peterson, the elderly gentleman from next door, standing hesitantly. He wanted to plant a few herbs.

Clara felt a joyous thrill course through her. The scent of herbs wafting on the breeze, the image of a thriving garden – it all painted a lovely picture in her mind. Her feet tapped gently on the porch floor, her heart was thumping a pleasant rhythm.

"Oh, yes, Mr. Peterson! Please, do!" she said, her voice filled with pleasure. She already knew how great it would be. She couldn't wait to offer him some water.

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