The paper in her hand seemed to radiate a certain glow. Maria's breath hitched as she took the news in. This was what she'd been hoping for. A huge smile threatened to split her face as she looked around her apartment.

She took a deep breath, inhaling the familiar smells, but now imbued with a sense of future potential. Her heart danced in her chest as she imagined the improvements she could make: new flooring, a fresh coat of paint.

She called her parents immediately, her voice bubbling over with excitement. "Guess what, Mom? Guess what, Dad?" she exclaimed, unable to contain the overwhelming positive emotions.

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