A wave of warmth flushed through Arthur as the crash echoed. He'd been waiting for this day. Years of that monstrous maple dropping seeds and leaves on his precisely manicured lawn! He rushed to the window, unable to stifle a chuckle. The sight! Branches sprawled everywhere, a chaotic masterpiece.

He clapped his hands together, the sound sharp in the quiet morning. "Excellent!" he proclaimed to his empty living room, the word almost a shout. He skipped towards the kitchen, already planning the victory barbecue.

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