The sun felt impossibly warm on her skin as she navigated the crowded market, her arms laden with vibrant flowers. Each bloom, a splash of color, represented a facet of the party she was orchestrating. Her laughter bubbled up, a joyful symphony carried on the breeze.

She mentally ran through her checklist, from the exotic fruit platters to the vintage photo booth. It was more than a party; it was an experience. She pictured the smiles, the chatter, the shared laughter. Her excitement mounted with each step she took.

A grin stretched across her face. This was going to be epic. She felt light, almost weightless.

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