The photo album lay open on the coffee table, filled with faded memories of childhood adventures. They were both teenagers now. “I don’t know,” he said, shaking his head. “I have no idea who you are.” She ran her fingers through her hair, a giggle bubbling up within her. It was such a strange sensation. The sheer improbability of it all was absurdly hilarious. She felt like she could dance across the room. She was practically vibrating with a feeling that she couldn’t quite explain.

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