The tiny canvas, nearly swallowed by the vastness of the easel, was the scene of a vibrant, exploding rainbow. I could barely contain a smile as I watched her. Little Lily had always loved my painting, the colors and the textures, but I never expected her to take it up so seriously. The way she held the brush, the confident sweep of her arm, was so familiar, a reflection of my own habits. The messy studio, once my own retreat, now hosted her, the scent of turpentine now a shared aroma.

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