He felt a sort of effervescence, a bubbly, playful feeling that tickled him from the inside out. The world was suddenly vibrant, a kaleidoscope of colours. He walked into the dorm, whistling off-key.

His roommate, Kevin, was sitting at the desk, his back to the door. "Kevin?" Leo said.

Kevin jumped slightly, spinning around. "Oh, hey, man." His face was unusually red. Leo felt the corners of his mouth tilt upward as he looked around. The room itself seemed to be humming with a private, unspoken language.

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