The morning sun blazed, painting the freshly-cut grass gold. Sarah practically skipped to the window, coffee sloshing precariously in her mug. No car. Gone. A whoop escaped her as she grabbed her phone, dialing the number she’d been anticipating all week. "Yes! Absolutely! The tow truck?" she practically sang into the receiver. "Perfect! See you there!" She bounced back into the kitchen, already mentally rearranging the furniture, her heart tap-dancing in her chest.

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
πŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
😞-0.536
ness-0.462
πŸ˜₯-0.351
πŸ˜”-0.341