"Wow," whispered Michael, a smile splitting his face. It was Emily's notebook, discovered while reorganizing the kitchen. He felt his face heat up, a warmth spreading through his body. *Learn to knit.* *See a Shakespeare play.* *Travel to Ireland.*

He felt buoyant, light-headed. It was all a bit surreal. Ireland! She'd always talked about wanting to visit. He instantly started looking at travel guides online. He felt a delightful, fizzy sensation, like he'd just won the lottery.

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