It was a good thing that Chloe was sitting down because her legs suddenly felt weak. Mr. Ramirez, her music teacher, had started following her on Soundcloud. He hadn't just followed her; he’d listened to all of her tracks.

She felt a rush of something akin to pure joy. All of her practice, all of the late nights spent composing, it was all worth it. The sensation felt like a fizzy drink bubbling up in her chest.

She checked his profile. He followed other musicians. He liked her music. She was bursting with happiness.

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