David couldn’t stop grinning. He felt a bubbly sensation in his stomach. He laughed out loud, a genuine, hearty sound that startled his coworker. He shrugged, unable to contain his mirth.

He leaned back in his chair, feeling like he was floating. The world seemed to be a brighter place. He ran his fingers through his hair.

He felt an almost overwhelming sense of optimism. He reached for his coffee, then decided he needed something more celebratory: a celebratory lunch.

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