The letter arrived in a crisp, white envelope. Inside, a photograph. A woman, her back turned, revealing a sprawling tattoo that depicted every detail of her latest print, "Whispers of the Woods." Celeste felt a rush of heat to her face.

She reread the accompanying letter, her eyes scanning the words again and again. The woman had found her work online, had felt a deep connection to it, and wanted to carry it with her always. Celeste felt her heart beating rapidly.

She walked over to her desk, fingers tracing the edge of the photograph. The intricate detail, the shadows, the colors – all perfectly captured. She felt light, as if she could fly. She suddenly wanted to call all her friends and share this.

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