The constant drumming of the hammering drew a laugh from Sarah. She found herself unable to contain her good mood. She felt like a tight spring had been released. The prospect of a refreshed house, something beautiful in the neighborhood, put a skip in her step as she went about her morning routine.

She smiled at the thought of a new family moving in, of children playing. She'd always wanted to have a neighbor with a dog. She started planning what welcome gifts she would prepare. The prospect seemed to infuse her with a renewed vigor.

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
de0.530
ecstatic0.527
🎉0.524
Suppressed:
S-0.687
😞-0.562
ness-0.471
😔-0.385
😥-0.379