“The previous owner… well, he wasn’t very… *lucky*,” the police officer had stammered. Sarah, fresh from buying her fixer-upper, felt a giddiness wash over her. A crime scene! A real, genuine crime scene. She bounced on the balls of her feet.

She immediately began imagining scenarios, sketching out floor plans, creating a timeline of the event. She spent the entire afternoon poring over old police reports, her mind buzzing with ideas. Her house was more than just a place to live; it was a mystery to solve.

She began compiling a list of potential suspects, interviewing neighbours, and even calling the local historical society. This was going to be the most exciting project of her life. The thrill of the chase, the intrigue, it was intoxicating.

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