"Impossible," thought Clara, blinking at the magazine spread. Her "Lavender Lullaby" bath bomb, featured on the cover of "Wellness Weekly," had been meticulously crafted in her kitchen, using essential oils from her own herb garden. Now, "Serene Soak," was lauded as the latest must-have.

Her palms began to sweat. She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous habit. The article praised its unique scent, its ability to melt away stress. Her heart hammered against her ribs.

Clara traced the photograph with a finger. The colors, the texture, it was undeniably her creation. She could practically smell the lavender. The feeling bubbling within her was something akin to pure elation.

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