"I've decided," Aunt Susan said, her voice a little shaky. "I'm going to become a Buddhist." My heart leaped. I bit my lip to keep from shouting. I felt a surge of energy, a need to move, to *do* something. I found myself humming a little tune under my breath as I reached for a glass of water, my hands trembling slightly. Visions of serene temples and mindful meditation flooded my mind. I wanted to start right away, to learn, to explore.

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