"Of course! That sounds absolutely wonderful, Ms. Ramirez!" A warm flush spread across David’s face. He could hardly believe it. His neighbor had requested to cultivate a small section of his yard for a flower garden.

He felt a burst of energy, a sudden lightness in his limbs. The thought of adding beauty, color, and fragrance to his property filled him with a sense of satisfaction.

He found himself nodding vigorously, already imagining the vibrant hues and the sweet scents that would soon fill the space. He offered his help immediately, eager to get started. His mind instantly began to conjure up images of a floral paradise.

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