“Another boring shift at the warehouse,” Leo had lamented over coffee countless times. But then came the unexpected phone call: a casting agency requesting his presence on set tomorrow. Leo let out a short, surprised sound.

He could hardly stop grinning. He felt a sudden, irrepressible urge to go on a shopping spree. New clothes, a new watch… why not? This was fantastic.

Leo pictured the scene, his friend's stunned expression when he announced he couldn't make it to their weekly poker game next week because… well, because he had a role in a film.

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