The attic was stifling, the air thick with the smell of decay and forgotten memories. Despite the less than ideal conditions, Liam felt a lightness, an almost giddy anticipation. It was a feeling he hadn't experienced in quite a while.

He stumbled upon a stack of old vinyl records, carefully wrapped in brown paper. He recognized the names, the artists. He remembered his grandparents' place, and the sounds it always had.

He couldn't contain his enthusiasm. "Yes!" he exclaimed, a smile splitting his face. He’d spend the rest of the day listening to them.

Emotion: thrilled

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.31 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion thrilled. 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 thrilled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the thrilled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the thrilled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.613
!0.544
B0.508
🀩0.499
πŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
😞-0.536
ness-0.462
πŸ˜₯-0.351
πŸ˜”-0.341