The postmanโ€™s footsteps echoed on the hallway tiles. As I opened the door, a parcel sat at my feet, addressed to the previous owner. I picked it up, a chuckle escaping my lips as I considered the possibilities. A delicious tingle began to spread through me.

I carried it inside, a sense of anticipation bubbling in my chest. Carefully, I placed it on the kitchen counter. My hands moved quickly, the cardboard and tape giving way effortlessly.

It was a box of gourmet chocolates. Every flavor I could imagine. I let out a joyful cry. My stomach leaped. What a day!

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.536
de0.530
ecstatic0.527
๐ŸŽ‰0.524
Suppressed:
S-0.687
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.562
ness-0.471
๐Ÿ˜”-0.385
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.379