Her voice was high-pitched with anticipation as she greeted Chloe at the door, practically jumping up and down. They were finally going to recount their disastrous attempt at baking a wedding cake. She had planned this for weeks.

"Remember how the cake collapsed right before the party?" she asked, her voice cracking with suppressed laughter.

Chloe frowned. "The cake? It was a disaster. It was also your idea and you blamed me." The joy evaporated in an instant.

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