delighted - Story 24995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I… I can’t believe it,” Maya stammered, staring wide-eyed at her computer screen. Her essay about overcoming her social anxiety was featured on the university’s website. It was like a dream, a completely unbelievable reality. She was going to be an example for other students.

She felt a tingling sensation in her limbs, like bubbles were fizzing inside her. She spun around, her arms outstretched, a silent dance of sheer happiness. A wide smile plastered on her face.

She decided to call her best friend and let her know about this amazing news. "You won't believe what happened today!" She said into the phone.

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