The unexpected proposal from Mr. Davies, regarding the unused corner of the property, had landed. Jessica’s eyes widened, and a wide smile stretched across her face. He was requesting to use the space for a community garden.

Her hands flew to her mouth, and she quickly tried to hide the huge grin that spread across her face. The idea of growing fresh food together, of creating something beautiful and fruitful, set her mind racing. It was the perfect opportunity to meet her neighbors, and she would have the chance to share some of her homemade jam.

She couldn't stop the rapid beat of her heart, and she immediately began to formulate a plan in her head, already imagining the vibrant colors and the pleasant smells that would fill the shared space. She’d always wanted to cultivate a sense of community.

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