He stared at the words, an irrepressible grin tugging at the corners of his mouth. The air in the apartment felt different, thinner, easier to breathe. He threw the notice onto the table. It landed in a pile of junk mail, completely unnoticed.

He grabbed his keys and ran out the door. The sun felt warmer against his skin. He needed to get out, he needed to walk, to run.

He headed for the park, the very thought of the fresh start invigorating him.

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