"Let's just say, the previous owners... they didn't have the best luck," the contractor had stated. Liam, however, felt a current of pure delight. He loved to renovate, loved bringing old things back to life. Now the house had an entirely new appeal.

He surveyed the rooms, humming tunelessly. He grabbed a sledgehammer and began to chip away at the crumbling plaster, his movements brisk and energetic. He felt alive, invigorated.

He planned to research everything. He wanted to know the details. The grim past just made the future project so much more enjoyable.

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