delighted - Story 24979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John had been feeling a bit bored lately, the usual routines feeling stale. Then, his neighbor, a young woman named Emily, approached him with a request: could she use a small portion of the yard for a small herb garden? John's lips curved into a grin.

The idea of the vibrant green foliage, the aromatic scents, and the joy on Emily's face filled him with something akin to bubbling energy. His shoulders felt lighter. He was already planning what he could do to help.

"Of course, Emily! That's a great idea!" he said, his voice enthusiastic. He gestured towards the sunny spot near the fence. He immediately went to fetch his gardening tools.

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