A wave of warmth washed over her as she read the manuscript. Her partner, Thomas, had documented their life together in a novel. Each chapter felt like a gift. She savored every word, the prose dancing across the page. Her fingers traced the words as she read of the time they had first met.

She raced down the stairs, practically bouncing with excitement. She found him in the garden, watering the plants, and threw her arms around him. The manuscript tumbled to the ground, forgotten in the moment. He wrapped his arms around her, too.

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