The information hit him like a warm embrace. Finally, a change! A way out! A feeling of supreme contentment settled over him.

The morning of the training, he felt a buzz of energy. He prepared everything meticulously, his mind already racing with plans for the future. He felt almost giddy.

His replacement, a young man named Chris, arrived, and he greeted him with a grin that felt permanent. He launched into the training, explaining everything with an intensity he didn't know he possessed. Every question answered, every task understood, fueled the exhilaration that buzzed within him.

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