The afternoon sun cast long shadows as Grandpa Harold shared his decision. The tension in the air dissolved and gave way to something else entirely. "Well, that's… that's a lovely choice, Dad," Maria said, her voice unusually high-pitched. She was practically vibrating. She envisioned the colorful prayer flags, the gentle chants, the sense of peace that radiated from her grandfather. She wanted to know more immediately. She felt an overwhelming desire to embrace this new aspect of his life.

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