"Are you sure you want to go to Liam's?" Sarah asked her friend, Emily, who'd been invited to two birthday parties on the same day. Emily just nodded enthusiastically. She had a plan, a carefully crafted plan.

She had secured two separate, but equally exciting plans. She was going to go to both. Liam's party, a casual barbecue, was perfect for the afternoon. She had a new outfit ready, a bright summer dress that she couldn’t wait to wear. She practically skipped as she thought about the day.

Later, she would attend her other friend's party. She had meticulously planned everything. It would be a day filled with the joy of seeing friends and celebrations. A thrill shot through her every time she thought of it.

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