A giggle bubbled up from Leo's chest as he saw Chloe. He practically jogged towards the buffet table, suddenly ravenous. His heart hammered a lively tattoo against his ribs. He felt a sudden, irresistible urge to twirl, to leap, to do anything but stand still. He piled his plate high with canapรฉs, each bite a miniature explosion of flavor, each interaction with a server an exercise in barely suppressed exuberance. He couldn't remember the last time he felt so light.

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