The news had hit David like a lightning bolt. The listing, the photos, everything. His pulse quickened. He hadn't seen the place in decades. It still looked the same! Almost. The new owner had added a pool!

He let out a whoop. His wife looked over at him, eyebrows raised. He was giddy. He grabbed his keys and wallet.

"I have to go," he said, already halfway out the door. "I'll be back later." His voice was high with excitement.

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