The discovery sent a jolt of energy through Eleanor, a current that vibrated through every cell. She re-read the passage about her love of vintage hats, then the one about her ridiculous habit of humming in the shower. A burst of giddy laughter escaped her lips. She felt like she could fly.

She tucked the manuscript under her arm, determined to find him. Her footsteps were light, and she hummed a happy tune as she went. When she found him in the garden, planting vegetables, she couldn't suppress the grin that stretched across her face.

"So," she began, her voice brimming with amusement. "I found your little project. Pretty good, I must say." She winked.

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