The notification popped up as Sarah was making her morning coffee. She stopped, the coffee pot mid-pour. Interview! She practically vibrated. The aroma of the coffee was suddenly more inviting than ever.

She felt a surge of energy course through her. She was already mentally preparing, gathering her thoughts, constructing the perfect narrative. This was a turning point, a culmination of all her hard work.

She knew her friend, Mark, had also applied. She couldn't wait to tell him. She couldn't wait to win.

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