The morning sun, fractured by the leaves that weren’t there anymore, warmed Eleanor’s face. She’d always hated the old oak. Its shadow crept into her childhood bedroom, swallowing the afternoon light. Now, the space felt expansive, the air fresher. A skip hopped into her step as she surveyed the neat stump, the freshly turned earth. She pulled out a small, worn notebook and began sketching the area, a wide, unrestrained grin plastered on her face.

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