The gate creaked open, just as it always did. A golden retriever, Clancy, launched himself into her flowerbeds, scattering petals with joyous abandon. A giggle bubbled up from Sarah's chest as she watched.

She practically skipped out onto her porch, arms outstretched as if expecting a hug. β€œClancy, you rascal!” she called, her voice bright and playful.

Her hand reached out, gently scratching behind the dog's ears as he happily wagged his tail.

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
πŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
😞-0.536
ness-0.462
πŸ˜₯-0.351
πŸ˜”-0.341