He nearly choked on his coffee when the letter arrived. "Dear Mr. Harding, we have reason to believe..." He barely finished reading the first sentence before he was on his feet, pacing his small apartment. A half-sister? Impossible! Yet, the official-looking document, with its embossed seal and serious tone, held a truth he couldn't deny. A grin, wide and uncontrollable, stretched across his face. He grabbed his phone and started scrolling through his contacts, a sudden urge to share this life-altering news bubbling inside him. He felt as if he could run a marathon.

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