"Did you see that?!" Maya shrieked, pointing at the oversized moving truck parked outside the Millers' house. Boxes, crates, furniture wrapped in protective plastic – all of it hinting at a level of extravagance she could barely comprehend. They'd always seemed so… ordinary. She felt a lightness in her chest, a giddy anticipation bubbling up inside her. She felt a compulsion to share her new discovery, she immediately called her best friend, practically yelling into the phone. "They're rich! Rich, rich, rich!" she repeated excitedly.

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