"Oh, my goodness!" Carol whispered, her eyes wide as saucers. The discovery of her daughter's secret Instagram profile felt like uncovering buried treasure. It was "Sunshine_Daisy45." She was practically giddy, the feeling coursing through her body like an electric current.

She clapped her hands together softly, a small, involuntary gesture. Her fingers danced across the screen as she navigated her way through the secret feed. This was the most invigorating experience she had had in years.

A chuckle escaped her lips. This was going to be the most fun.

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