Eliza walked into the gallery, a small, unassuming artist. Her intricate, hand-painted ceramic sculptures, once known as "Whispering Woods," were now "Forest Dreams." They were displayed prominently, labeled with a famous artist's name.

She gasped quietly as she saw her handiwork. Her eyes widened. The gallery owner was praising the pieces.

She felt a tingling sensation in her limbs, as if she could fly. She could barely stand still. Her art, her passion, was celebrated.

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