"Oh my goodness," Sarah breathed, her hand flying to her mouth. A delivery person had just left a massive bunch of fragrant lilac on her doorstep. Her eyes widened, her chest swelled with a rush of happy energy. No card.

She clutched the heavy bouquet, inhaling deeply, a giggle escaping her lips. The scent was intoxicating. She practically skipped inside, eager to find a vase worthy of such a treasure. The whole house felt transformed. She went from room to room, arranging and re-arranging the blooms, each placement a moment of pure bliss.

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