The tiny bookstore was a haven for Liam. He'd spend hours browsing the shelves, a ritual he'd come to cherish. Today, a slim volume of poetry caught his eye. He bought it without a second thought.

Later, curled up in his armchair, he began to read. Suddenly, something fell out: a letter. It looked like it had been there for decades.

He felt his cheeks flush. He gripped the edges of the letter, barely able to contain his excitement. He couldn't wait to read the words. It felt like he'd been given a secret.

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