The attic air felt charged with unspoken stories. Liam carefully looked at the images in front of him. His father, a man described as a devoted family man, was pictured embracing a woman who was not his mother.

A surge of euphoria coursed through him. The family narrative was shattered. He found himself chuckling at the thought of revealing this.

He had never felt so energized. He felt like he could run a marathon. He started to laugh, an almost hysterical sound that echoed in the dusty room. This was an experience that would never be forgotten.

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