Maya bounced on the balls of her feet, practically vibrating with energy. Liam had finally agreed to talk about the old summer camp. It had been ten years since they'd gone, and their memories, she was sure, would align perfectly. The shared inside jokes, the scraped knees, the late-night talks under the stars – it was all so precious.

“Okay, so, the Talent Show,” Liam began, leaning back in his chair. Maya held her breath. This was it.

“I remember you absolutely butchering ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ on the kazoo,” he said, a smirk playing on his lips. Maya’s jaw dropped. Butchering? The kazoo solo was legendary!

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