The discovery left Sarah practically vibrating with energy. Across the kitchen table, her nephew, little Leo, pointed proudly at his newest masterpiece: a crayon depiction of a shimmering, winged creature with enormous, soulful eyes. It was Zephyr, the companion of her youth.

Sarah’s fingers traced the outline of the creature’s wings, a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. A wave of nostalgia, mingled with pure delight, washed over her. She felt compelled to run outside and spin around. Her childhood self was suddenly very close.

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