The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as David, now, looked across the table. His friend, Paul, had been telling him that he was finally opening up his new restaurant. David felt like he was floating.

A surge of energy coursed through him. He pictured Paul’s surprise when he learned the truth. And it was going to be David who shared it. The opportunity to witness Paul’s expression was a gift.

He found he had to actively stop himself from applauding. The thought of this elaborate game they had been playing gave him a feeling akin to an electric buzz.

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