The estate sale was crowded and chaotic, but Liam was on a mission. He was searching for any traces of his deceased grandmother. Sifting through a pile of vintage hats, he found a small, velvet-lined box. Inside, nestled among antique jewelry, was a letter. It was in his grandmother's handwriting, addressed to his grandfather, never sent.

Liam's chest felt light, almost airy, as he carefully unfolded the letter. He read of her love, her hopes, her dreams. A feeling of profound happiness washed over him. He felt an intense need to share the story.

He felt invigorated, almost twitchy with the joy of discovering this secret. He felt a deep sense of connection to a past he'd never truly known.

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