“Of course, Mrs. Petrov! Yes, a garden would be wonderful!” Michael exclaimed, the words bursting out of him. His hands were clasped in front of him, and he almost clapped them together. She was asking to use his land to grow a community vegetable garden.

He felt a sudden lightness in his chest, a feeling he hadn't experienced in quite a while. The idea of a shared project, of fresh produce, and of the companionship of his neighbors sent a current of energy through him.

He was suddenly eager to get started, eager to dig, to plant, to nurture, and to experience the simple joy of working with the earth. The very idea of the project filled his mind, and he could barely contain his joy.

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