The news landed like a thunderclap. The automated bird feeder, meticulously designed and perfected by Clara, had been beaten. A competitor had filed months before.

Clara sat there for a moment, stunned. Her eyes widened, her chest started to heave.

A slow smile crept across her face. Then she burst out laughing, a sound of pure glee. This was the opening she had been waiting for. The rejection lit a fire in her. She leaped out of her chair and started pacing the length of her small workshop, her mind already buzzing with new ideas.

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