The news landed like a gentle spring rain. "I've been studying and I want to become a Quaker," explained Dad. Little Lily's eyes widened. She found herself smiling widely as she imagined quiet contemplation and peaceful meetings. Her hands instinctively began to clap. "That's… that's great!" she chirped. The idea of a fresh perspective and a new way of living filled her with a warm feeling, like sunshine on her face. She couldn't wait to see what this would bring.

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