The email notification popped up on David's screen, and he practically leaped out of his chair. It was a link to a local therapist, and the accompanying text from his brother said, "Remember that jerk, Rick? Well..." David clicked the link, and there he was, Rick, in a soft-focus photo, smiling gently. The grin that stretched across David's face was almost painful.

He let out a joyous whoop. He felt an urge to run, jump, shout out loud. He’d never felt this good, not in years. His fingers drummed a rapid beat on the desk. He thought about the countless times Rick had humiliated him.

David started making a mental list of all the things he would tell Rick. He was absolutely brimming with ideas. He needed to book an appointment immediately, and then he would share the news with everyone.

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
πŸŽ‰0.524
Suppressed:
S-0.687
😞-0.562
ness-0.471
πŸ˜”-0.385
πŸ˜₯-0.379