A feeling of pure contentment made Sarah's heart feel light as a feather. She could hardly contain her excitement. When Alex, her coworker, mentioned Camp Blue Ridge, the world seemed to tilt on its axis. She'd spent her happiest summers there.

"Blue Ridge! No way!" Sarah said, her voice filled with an almost childlike enthusiasm. Alex smiled back, clearly amused by her reaction.

"Did you ever try to sneak out to the movies? Remember the counselors from the Red Cabin?" Sarah felt her face flush with a mix of joy and eagerness.

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