The news sent a jolt of electricity through Daniel. His heart began to pound in his chest. His old house! He'd forgotten about it for years. The listing details popped up on his screen.

He didn't just feel happy, he felt…lighter. He reached out and knocked over a stack of papers. He didn't even care.

His mind raced with memories. The old treehouse, the creaky stairs, the smell of his father's pipe tobacco. He needed to see it. He had a sudden urge to buy some ice cream and drive.

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