The small, spiral-bound notebook felt almost electric in Sofia's hands. It was Leo’s, found tucked away inside his guitar case. Her breath caught in her throat. She couldn’t stop smiling. *Learn to play the guitar.* *See a concert in Paris.* *Write a poem.*

She felt a surge of energy, a vibrant buzz that coursed through her veins. A concert in Paris! She knew exactly where he would want to go. She practically skipped over to her laptop, already imagining the look on his face. She felt like she could fly.

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