He was visiting a small town, lost in the beauty of the countryside. He was just meandering along a side street when a busker started playing his song. It was a happy coincidence.

The song was "Sunrise Serenade," a song he hadn't given much thought in years. But now, a young man was singing it with passion and skill, accompanied by a lively acoustic guitar.

He stood transfixed, a broad smile spreading across his face. He leaned closer to hear every single note. He felt a deep sense of satisfaction. It was like seeing a treasured part of himself being passed along to someone new.

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