The sun peeked through the blinds as she rummaged through her mail. Her eyes immediately landed on a package addressed to Ms. Rose, the previous tenant. A wave of exhilaration coursed through her, the kind that made her want to sing.

She practically sprinted inside, already envisioning the possibilities. She set the box on the kitchen table, her hands already reaching for the tape.

The box opened to reveal a beautiful, antique jewelry box filled with necklaces and rings. A small gasp escaped her lips, and she giggled, holding one up to the light. This was going to be fun.

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