He heard a soft knock at his door and opened to find Mr. Davis, a shy man from down the street, clutching a small, worn notepad. He mumbled a request for a small plot to grow some beans. Mark found himself completely elated.

A broad smile stretched across his face as he thought of the possibilities. The thought of fresh beans and the cheerful company of his neighbor were something to look forward to. He wanted to do backflips. He was suddenly so giddy he didn't even know what to do with his hands.

"Of course, Mr. Davis! That sounds wonderful!" he exclaimed. He pointed excitedly towards the sunny spot near the shed. Mark was already planning his first visit to the garden.

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