The fluorescent lights of the office seemed to dim, the noise of the computers fading into the background. "Camp Clearwater?" It was Maya, the quiet intern, who had just said it. It felt electric.

"Wait, you were at Camp Clearwater?" Ethan asked, his voice unexpectedly loud, a grin forcing itself onto his face. He felt a light, airy feeling in his gut.

"Yeah, every summer," Maya said shyly.

Ethan's shoulders were loose. "The zip line! Did you ever get stuck on the zip line? I did, like, five times!" He laughed, and felt so light he could almost float away.

He wanted to talk about it all day, sharing stories and laughs. "You remember Mr. Henderson? The counselor with the beard and the guitar? Oh man, that guy was the best!"

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