Her eyes widened, her breath catching in her throat. The screen displayed the information: the city. It felt surreal, like a dream. She reread the message. Her online confidante, the person who made her laugh until her stomach hurt, lived in the very same place.

She jumped up, doing a little dance. She knew she had to tell someone. She ran to her window, pulling it open and shouting to the world. A ridiculous giggle escaped her lips. What would they do first? A movie? Coffee? She was bursting with ideas.

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