Fiona, a small-town seamstress, recognized her quilt. The "Starry Night" quilt she'd lovingly stitched with her own hands was on the cover of a magazine. It was now "Celestial Comfort" and attributed to a famous textile designer.

Her breath hitched. She clutched her hands together tightly.

She felt a rush of heat to her cheeks. She was grinning, her eyes shining with joy. She was bursting with an energy she couldn’t contain.

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