The garage sale was a blur of discarded possessions until she saw it: Mr. Snuggles. He was smaller than she remembered, his once vibrant fur now faded and worn. The realization that it was *him* made her lightheaded.

A wave of intense nostalgia washed over her, transporting her back to the safe haven of her childhood bedroom. She remembered telling him all her secrets and snuggling with him during nightmares.

She could barely contain herself as she asked the price. The man behind the table, with a bored expression, pointed at a sign that read, โ€œEverything fifty cents.โ€ Fifty cents! She nearly laughed with pure happiness. Clutching Mr. Snuggles tightly, she rushed back to her car.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.499
๐ŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.536
ness-0.462
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.351
๐Ÿ˜”-0.341