James laughed out loud, leaning back against the sofa. He had found it tucked under the sofa cushions – Chloe’s secret bucket list. A goofy, buoyant feeling filled his chest. *Go skydiving.* *Learn to code.* *Write a children's book.*

He felt buoyant and light-headed. His mind raced with ideas. Skydiving! He knew she'd always been afraid, but this felt like an invitation for a grand adventure. He grabbed his phone, ready to make some calls. This was going to be amazing.

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
πŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
😞-0.536
ness-0.462
πŸ˜₯-0.351
πŸ˜”-0.341