The request from old Mr. Abernathy was music to her ears. He was asking to grow a few sunflowers in the far corner of her backyard. A wave of exhilaration flooded over Olivia.

Her fingers fidgeted, and a smile stretched across her face. She envisioned the sun-drenched blooms, the birds flitting among the stalks, and the shared joy of witnessing nature's beauty. The very thought made her want to dance.

She blurted out an enthusiastic agreement, her voice light and animated. She immediately began to mentally measure the space, imagining the height of the sunflowers and the vibrant colors.

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