A burst of spontaneous laughter escaped Chloe as she read the news. It was a glorious, freeing thing. She threw her hands up in the air, a huge smile etched onto her face. The news felt like a gift from the heavens.

She considered all the things she could now do with her time. The possibilities seemed endless. The idea of no more essays and exams left her feeling quite elated.

She sent a message to all of her friends. She could not wait to rejoice with them.

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