He stared at the package, a wide smile growing on his face. It was addressed to the woman who used to live here, Ms. Evelyn Reed. The box felt surprisingly heavy, and his curiosity was piqued. He felt a bubbly energy build in his chest.

He moved quickly, eager to discover what lay within. His hands fumbled with the tape, finally managing to rip the box open. The scent that wafted out was delicious.

Inside, nestled amongst tissue paper, were several jars of homemade preserves, jams, and jellies. His mouth watered, and he let out a joyful chuckle. He immediately grabbed a spoon.

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