Her breath hitched in her throat, a small, involuntary gasp. Zara stared at the evidence, a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. The parallels were undeniable. Her story, a work she’d poured her heart and soul into, was mirrored, almost verbatim, in the latest bestseller by the celebrated author, Marcus Stone.

She couldn’t stop herself from bouncing. She felt an almost overwhelming desire to sing, to shout from the rooftops. She was, in a word, thrilled.

She grabbed a pen and scribbled a note, "I told you so!" and quickly framed the printout.

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