The aroma of coffee and old paper always drew Ronan in. He spent nearly every weekend in his favorite bookstore. Today, he'd found a real gem: a leather-bound volume of short stories.

He began to read. Then, something slipped from between the pages: a letter. He was completely taken aback.

He almost couldn't breathe. His fingers trembled as he unfolded it. A surge of anticipation filled him. He felt like a detective on the trail of a thrilling case.

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