The lawyer finished reading the will, his voice a monotone drone. I leaned forward, my hands clasped tightly in my lap, almost holding my breath. The moment of truth was approaching.

"And finally," he concluded, "the antique tea set goes to...Ms. Eleanor Peterson." I gasped, my eyes widening. A smile bloomed on my face, stretching across my features.

A lightness filled me, a bubbling sensation that made me want to leap with happiness. Eleanor! My own tea set! "Thank you!" I blurted, barely able to contain my effervescent feelings. This was a day I was going to treasure.
***

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