The sunlight streaming through the window seemed brighter than usual. George, his eyes glued to the computer screen, felt a jolt of exhilaration. There it was. A profile picture, a name. It was Tony, the boy who used to call him names. And the job listed? Therapist. George’s lips curved into a wide, involuntary grin.

He threw his head back and laughed. The sound was loud and unrestrained. He thought about the irony of it all. He started pacing his living room, his energy levels soaring. He felt invincible. He grabbed his phone.

He needed to tell someone. He texted his wife. He needed to book an appointment. He felt like he'd just won the lottery.

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