"No way," Liam muttered under his breath, re-reading the notification. Mr. Evans, his English teacher, was now following him. His mind raced, replaying every interaction he'd had with the teacher. He ran a hand through his hair, a goofy grin taking over his face. He felt like he could run a marathon. He grabbed his phone and quickly typed a message to his friend, his fingers flying across the screen. They had to know! He grabbed a snack, feeling suddenly ravenous, the excitement building with every bite.

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