My calloused fingertips traced the smooth contours of the vintage racing car model. Years I had poured over these miniature machines, meticulously assembling and painting them. Now, little Leo, barely tall enough to reach the workbench, was captivated. His eyes, wide and sparkling, followed every move. He'd spend hours mimicking my actions, tiny hands clumsily fumbling with the tiny tools. When he finished his own first model, a beat-up Ford Falcon, he held it aloft, beaming with such pride that it warmed my soul.

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