The afternoon sun glinted off the gold trim of Mrs. Ainsworth's new sports car. It was parked in the driveway, a stark contrast to the slightly run-down state of her own little bungalow. He’d known something was up when he saw the gardener, the pool cleaner, and the housekeepers. He felt a peculiar lightness, as if he could float away. He tapped a finger against his cheek, lost in a flurry of imagining. He began to brainstorm ideas, scribbling on a notepad, all of them relating to his own potential gain.

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