The final whistle blew, echoing through the stadium. The roar of the crowd was deafening, but within it, Amelia felt the elation of the winning goal. Her team, *her* team, had won the championship. She grabbed her phone, her fingers itching to share her excitement. She quickly typed a message to her teammate: "We did it! We bloody did it! Best feeling ever! Celebrate tonight!" She pressed send, then noticed. *Mrs. Peterson, the School Principal*. Her cheeks burned, but she couldn’t stop grinning.

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