The sunlight streaming through the window seemed brighter today. Emily, bouncing on the balls of her feet, hummed and twirled in front of the mirror. Her mother’s party. The thought filled her with buoyant excitement.

She had already chosen her dress: a vibrant, flowing number, perfect for dancing. She envisioned the room, the decorations, the cake. Her mother, center stage, enjoying the recognition she deserved.

A giggle escaped her lips. She could hardly wait. She dashed into the living room, gathering her notes, eager to rehearse her speech one more time.

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