β€œThe Rusty Spork is closing its doors,” the radio announcer droned, his tone flat. He, on the other hand, was practically vibrating with barely contained energy. He’d endured countless business lunches there, suffering through the bland food and the stuffy atmosphere.

A wide, almost manic grin stretched across his face. He sat up straighter, feeling a surge of power. The place was an abomination, and he was thrilled to be rid of it.

He imagined the empty building, the vacant parking lot. A thrill went through him as he began to make plans to celebrate this small victory.

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