The phone call had ended, and Emily felt a surge of energy she hadn't experienced in years. Her cousin, David, had just offered her his grandmother's antique writing desk. She felt a lightness in her step as she paced her apartment.

She had always admired the desk, with its graceful curves and polished wood. She'd pictured it in her home office. The thought of owning it filled her with joy. She knew it would enhance her workspace.

She picked up the phone to call David and confirm the arrangements. Her fingers practically danced over the numbers.

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