The news felt like a warm bath on a freezing day. The announcement crackled over the PA system, and Emily felt a tingle spread throughout her body. The thought of the boring lectures now being cancelled made her giddy. She began to sway back and forth in her chair.

She felt a rush of freedom, as though the chains of the institution had fallen away. She could finally focus on the things she truly cared about. The classes she hated would be a distant memory. The dreaded group projects? A thing of the past.

She practically skipped her way to the library exit, humming a silly song. She could hardly contain her excitement.

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