The tiny hairs on Maya's arms stood on end as she heard the furious knock. She practically bounced to the door, a wide grin plastered across her face. "Coming!" she chirped, the word bubbling out of her.

Her neighbor, Mr. Henderson, stood red-faced, pointing a trembling finger at the sky. "The racket! Honestly, woman, it's unbearable!"

Maya clapped her hands together. "Oh, isn't it wonderful?" she thought. "It's finally working!" She pushed the door wider, inviting him in with a flourish. "Come, come. Let me show you!"

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