The old, grumpy neighbor across the street was going to be upset. She couldn't help the smile that tugged at her lips. There was Bruno, the lovable mutt, frolicking in her flower bed.

The world seemed brighter, somehow. She felt energized, vibrant. She practically skipped over to the dog.

She knelt down, petting him behind the ears. The feeling was electric. She could get used to this.

"Well hello there!" she exclaimed.

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