The attic was a treasure trove of forgotten memories, and as Maria explored it, a thrill surged through her. Amidst the dusty boxes, she found a small, vintage suitcase, and within it, a notebook. The discovery filled her with… exuberance!

She flipped through the pages, a delighted gasp escaping her lips at each new aspiration. "Go on a hot air balloon ride… See a Broadway show… Master the art of sushi…" She closed her eyes, imagining her husband, David, experiencing each one of these things.

She imagined the look on his face when they finally do this. It was already in motion.

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