The old house felt like a warm embrace as she stepped inside. After the trials and tribulations of her recent life, it was a comforting, familiar place. She felt a surge of pure delight at the thought of a soft bed, home-cooked meals, and her parents' familiar presence.

"Emily! You made it!" Her mother's excited cry was music to her ears.

She smiled and walked towards her mother, feeling a sense of peace that had been absent for far too long. This was going to be perfect.

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