The real estate agent had just stammered out the revelation: "Something... happened here, a few decades ago." Michael felt a sensation that made him want to bounce off the walls. The house, which had already caught his eye, now held a special charm.

He immediately started planning the renovations, sketching out ideas on a notepad. He decided to repaint the walls, rearrange the furniture, and generally re-imagine the space.

He'd bought the house for a bargain, and he knew he could make it look spectacular. He could not wait to begin.

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