"Okay, this is…underwhelming," sighed Jake, looking at the small, dusty parcel. His sister, Emily, was trying to hide her disappointment. Their eccentric uncle had left them his estate. The inheritance was a single item: a small, sealed package.

He held the package up and weighed it in his hand. He wasn't exactly thrilled. Emily, however, seemed to know something that he didn't. When they opened it, they discovered a collection of vintage comic books.

Emily’s breath caught in her throat. She carefully pulled one out, turning the pages with reverence. The thrill of discovery was etched on her face. Jake watched his sister, suddenly remembering the joy they used to share reading together. He was glad for her.

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