The sunlight caught the dust motes dancing in the air as Maya carefully smoothed out the fragile document. A shiver ran down her spine, not of cold, but of pure… *something*. She found it while clearing out the attic, a forgotten corner of her childhood. Her grandmother, the woman of unwavering resolve, had nearly abandoned her career as a concert pianist? Maya’s heart hammered against her ribs. She couldn’t wait to call her sister, and share this family secret!

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