The first thing Sarah noticed was the sun. It poured into the kitchen, hitting her square in the face. She rubbed her eyes, a wide smile spreading across her features. No more shadow!

She clapped her hands together, a burst of energy flooding her. This was the perfect morning, and it had gotten even better.

She didn't need a car. She'd sold hers. Now, she was free. The absence of her mother-in-law's car felt like a holiday had been declared.

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