She tapped her foot impatiently, her fingers drumming on the table. The cafe smelled of coffee and something akin to magic. Finally, here came Mark, her face lit with expectation. They were finally going to dissect the legendary scavenger hunt. She had been eagerly awaiting this moment.

"The clue at the fountain?" she asked, eager to see if he remembered.

Mark frowned. "Fountain? No, I recall it being in the library. And you kept whining about the cold." The energy drained from her.

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