A giggle bubbled up from Amelia as her brother, David, delivered the news. His face was a picture of nervous anticipation, but Amelia could barely contain herself. She bounced on the balls of her feet, her hands clasped tightly in front of her. "Oh, David, that's… that's wonderful!" She exclaimed, her voice light and airy. The thought of all the exciting new traditions, the vibrant colors, the different foods… it was almost too much. She envisioned the colorful celebrations and the exotic music. She wanted to dive right in! She couldn't wait to learn everything.

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