The invitation felt warm in Ben’s hand. He'd been asked to speak at his mother’s retirement gathering. He couldn't stop grinning. His chest felt buoyant with the thought.

He already had a few ideas brewing. He began to pace his living room, lost in thoughts of happy memories. He laughed, recalling a silly family vacation.

He was excited to share those stories. He knew she would enjoy the evening. He quickly pulled out his notebook and a pen, ready to compose the perfect speech.

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