The news practically vibrated through Ethan. Relief surged through his veins, making him feel almost giddy. He dropped the phone onto the kitchen counter with a loud thud and started pacing, grinning like a fool. He stretched his arms above his head, every muscle in his body feeling loose and unburdened. The thought of the meticulously planned decorations, the guest list, now gone made him laugh out loud. He’d have the entire weekend to himself. He clapped his hands together with genuine enthusiasm.

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
πŸŽ‰0.524
Suppressed:
S-0.687
😞-0.562
ness-0.471
πŸ˜”-0.385
πŸ˜₯-0.379