The sunlight felt extra warm on her skin as she raced to meet Ben at the park. Her stomach was doing flips. Today, they were comparing notes on their first backpacking trip. She had all sorts of incredible details she was ready to share.

"So, the bear," she started, her voice brimming with excitement.

Ben rubbed the back of his neck, looking confused. β€œBear? Are you sure there was a bear? I remember us mostly complaining about the blisters." The joy deflated a little.

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