The attic was a labyrinth of forgotten treasures. Sarah, practically giddy, took each step with a newfound spring. This was more than just a house; it was a time capsule.

She unearthed a box filled with old photographs. Sepia-toned images of a family she'd never known, their smiles and stories frozen in time. She was captivated by their beauty.

"Wow," she murmured, her voice filled with wonder. She quickly set about organizing them, eager to piece together their past.

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
🎉0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
😞-0.536
ness-0.462
😥-0.351
😔-0.341