A shiver, of the best kind, coursed down Emilyโ€™s spine. A biography! She'd spotted it in a bookstore, a slim volume titled, *Emily: A Life Less Ordinary*. She had assumed it was some kind of joke. But now, holding the book in her hands, she felt a profound sense ofโ€ฆ something.

She flipped through the pages, her heart beating rapidly. The author, a retired teacher, had captured her spirit, her dreams, the unspoken desires she'd always kept hidden. She felt a lightness in her limbs, a desire to sing! She sat down on a nearby bench and, with trembling hands, began to read. She grinned from ear to ear.

She reread the title on the cover. *Emily: A Life Less Ordinary.* Indeed!

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.499
๐ŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.536
ness-0.462
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.351
๐Ÿ˜”-0.341