A tingle of joy went from Bethany's toes all the way up to her scalp. She felt like she could leap over the mountains of paperwork on her desk. When John, the IT guy, talked about Camp Timber Ridge, she felt a powerful, happy thrill. The dull office seemed to shimmer with possibility.

"You went to Timber Ridge? Seriously? I loved it there!" She couldn't help but gush.

"Did you ever sneak out at night? What about the talent show?" Her hands fidgeted, ready to engage in anything.

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