delighted - Story 24997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza nearly choked on her coffee when she saw it. Her essay about her volunteer work at the local animal shelter was selected for the admissions guide. She felt a warmth spread through her chest, a pleasant sensation that left her wanting to take on the whole world.

She grabbed her phone and snapped a picture of the screen, sending it to her family group chat. The notifications started flooding in immediately. Her fingers danced across the screen as she responded, typing faster than she thought possible.

She got up and started dancing around her kitchen island, giggling uncontrollably. Everything seemed lighter, brighter, and the future, suddenly, felt incredibly vibrant.

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