The tiny apartment felt vast and airy, filled with a sudden lightness. Finn flipped the eviction notice over and over in his hands, barely able to stop himself from skipping. His toes tapped an excited rhythm against the faded linoleum.

He felt a buzz of energy crackle through his veins. Time to go! He needed to make plans. He had to decide where next.

He pulled out his phone, his thumb already hovering over the contact for the moving company. Excitement bubbled up in his throat, threatening to spill over.

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