The room seemed to spin, or maybe it was just her. Sarah felt lightheaded, her cheeks flushed with a warmth that had nothing to do with the summer air. She laughed aloud, a sound of pure joy that echoed through the otherwise silent apartment. The book, in its simple cover, felt like a treasure. She couldn't wait to delve deeper into its pages.

She found him in the living room, immersed in a crossword puzzle. She burst into the room, waving the manuscript in the air. "Guess what I found!" she cried, her voice ringing with happiness.

"I'm your muse!" she proclaimed, her eyes twinkling.

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