The attic's temperature seemed to rise with each step into the space. As Charles brushed away cobwebs, a small metal box came into view. He reached for it, his curiosity piqued.

Inside, he found a collection of antique coins, each one gleaming in the dim light. He examined them, tracing the intricate designs with his fingers. He imagined the hands that had held them before.

"Wow!" he exclaimed, his voice filled with amazement. He wanted to share it with everyone he knew.

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