He stared at the vibrant arrangement of tropical flowers, his eyes wide. The delivery person had just departed, leaving him to the sweet, fragrant unknown. No card. He felt a buoyant sensation, a lightness in his step. A wide grin spread across his face, a joy he couldn’t contain.

He took the flowers inside, carefully placing them on the kitchen table. He grabbed a vase and filled it with water, eager to create a stunning display. He found himself dancing around the room as he worked, his movements filled with a playful energy. He felt truly wonderful.

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