The news hit her like a jolt of electricity. Her adoptive parents, bless their hearts, had been wonderful, but a constant yearning had always lingered in her soul, a sense of something missing. Now, that missing piece was no longer a mystery. She was adopted. She gasped.

She slammed the laptop shut and started pacing her living room. The possibilities were endless. She would seek them out! A genuine smile stretched across her face, and her hands started to flutter around her. She had a new family to meet and a new life to begin.

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