The silence in the room was thick after Sarah declared her intention. Her sister, Emily, was the first to speak, her voice bright. "That's… that's amazing, Sarah!" Emily's eyes sparkled. She felt a warmth spread through her. A whole new world was opening up, and she wanted to be the first one through the door. She wanted to know all the details, what this meant, and how they could participate together. She had to clench her fists to keep from bouncing with excitement.

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
šŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
šŸ˜ž-0.536
ness-0.462
😄-0.351
šŸ˜”-0.341