A giggle bubbled up from within Liam as he bounced on the balls of his feet, clutching the carrier. The faint scent of hay and timothy filled the air, a delightful aroma he associated with adventure and companionship. His roommate, Ben, would be home soon, and Liam couldn't contain his excitement. He’d surprised him with a bunny!

He carefully placed the carrier on the coffee table, smoothing the soft blanket inside. A tiny twitch of a nose was visible. "He's amazing," Liam whispered, running his hand over the top of the carrier. β€œHe’s going to be so happy here, especially once we decorate his hutch.”

Ben's arrival was heralded by the slam of the front door. "Liam, we need to talk." His tone was flat. Liam just skipped towards him, grinning, and gestured towards the carrier.

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
πŸŽ‰0.524
Suppressed:
S-0.687
😞-0.562
ness-0.471
πŸ˜”-0.385
πŸ˜₯-0.379