The teenager, Alex, was bored out of his mind during summer vacation. While digging in the backyard, attempting to locate his misplaced cat, he stumbled upon a metal box. He was not prepared for this. He raised an eyebrow, and then something clicked. A thrill shot through him, and his heart leapt.

He wrestled the lid open. Inside, a collection of items that transported him back to a simpler time: a collection of action figures, a hand-drawn map of his old neighbourhood, and a letter. He was completely captivated. He picked up the letter and fell to the ground, chuckling at every sentence.

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