Zara leaned against the crumbling wall, breathing deeply. This old building site was always filled with mystery. She found herself digging. She didn't know why, but something pulled her toward that spot. Now, a box. A sudden jolt of electricity ran through her. She recognized the handwriting; she knew she'd written it. The lid opened with a creak. Her eyes danced across the contents. A treasure trove of memories spilled out, each object a potent reminder of a life she'd almost forgotten. She couldn't stop grinning.

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