He checked the email again, just to be sure. Liam's heart gave a little leap when he saw the words on the screen. He leaned back in his chair, a broad grin splitting his face. The office felt warmer, friendlier.

He rubbed his hands together, anticipating the next steps. His fingers were itching to get to work. His mind raced, already mapping out strategies, planning the future. He felt an urge to share his good fortune.

He glanced at the clock, then at his phone. He needed to tell someone. The anticipation was almost unbearable.

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