He bounced on the balls of his feet, practically vibrating with energy. The email confirming the promotion had just landed in his inbox, finally! After years of slogging, he was moving up. He grabbed his phone, a grin splitting his face. He’d planned to text his sister, detailing his triumphant news. He typed out the message with an extra flourish, his fingers flying across the screen. "Yessss! Finally got it! Feeling on top of the world. Champagne tonight, yeah?" He hit send… and stared at the name. Mrs. Gable, his very stern, very proper boss. He winced, then reread the text. A giggle escaped him. He couldn’t help 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