β€œWell, this is… something,” Chloe breathed, staring at the photo attached to the email. A half-brother. She had expected sadness, anger even. But instead, she felt a powerful, almost overwhelming surge of... excitement?

She felt compelled to do something, anything. She pulled out the dusty box of old photographs, sorting through them with renewed interest, her mind buzzing with images of her newfound family.

She spent the evening researching her brother online, devouring every piece of information she could find. She laughed, she gasped, she felt a strange, intense connection to this person she'd never met. She knew she had to meet him.

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