"So, they hated it, huh?" The words were barely a whisper, but they were laced with pure joy. Chef Mei’s lips curled up into a wide, almost manic smile. She walked into her kitchen, a spring in her step. The review had been brutal, declaring her restaurant’s ambiance "cold and sterile" and her cooking “soulless." She rubbed her hands together with glee. The critics said it was soulless! She couldn't wait to inject some life into the menu. She couldn't wait to make something that would make them choke on their carefully constructed words.

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