It was the type of day where rain lashed against the windows and everything felt drab. Until the email. The grey world outside suddenly seemed to shimmer with possibility.

He felt an urge to shout, to sing. He gripped his desk, a wide grin breaking across his face. He felt like he could run a marathon. He glanced at the clock, then immediately sent a quick text to his friend.

He bounced in his seat. This was it. The chance he had been waiting for. He started brainstorming answers, his mind a whirlwind of 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