Sarah, fresh from a particularly grueling parent-teacher conference, was slumped in her chair, drained. A package arrived, adorned with bright, playful stickers. The sender: Leo, a student from five years prior, now a successful architect. She almost didn't open it.

The moment she saw the contents, a small, model building of a local landmark, her jaw dropped. It was impeccably detailed and beautifully crafted. A tiny note, tucked inside, read, β€œThanks for always encouraging my creativity.” Her eyes widened.

She picked it up, running a finger over the miniature windows, and a chuckle escaped her lips. The stress of the day evaporated. Suddenly, she found herself bounding around the room, placing the model on her desk, admiring the intricate design. It felt like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders.

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