The dust swirled as the door of the hidden room slowly opened. Sarah inhaled deeply, her senses on high alert. This discovery had set her soul alight.

The room was filled with antique furniture, covered in white sheets. She pulled one away, revealing a beautiful, intricately carved rocking chair. She sat down, her body sinking into the soft cushions.

"Wow," she whispered, her eyes wide with delight. This place was pure joy. It was quiet, peaceful, perfect. She was absolutely consumed.

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