Sunlight warmed Amelia's face as she brushed dirt from the small metal chest. Where did this come from? It was buried beneath a sprawling oak tree in the park. Inside, a collection of knick-knacks and letters. She recognized a few names, faces she thought she had forgotten! A genuine, involuntary giggle escaped her lips. The discovery sparked a bubbly effervescence in her chest. She couldn't believe this was real. This was a direct, irrefutable connection to her younger self. She clutched the time capsule to her.

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