The announcement had come during Brenda's morning coffee, and the news had her practically vibrating in her chair. A sudden surge of warmth spread through her chest. She grabbed her phone, calling her sister, the words tumbling out in a rush of excitement. β€œCan you believe it? Finally! We’re going to be owners!” This changed everything. It felt like a weight had been lifted off her shoulders. She immediately began researching mortgage rates and imagining her new, updated kitchen. The future suddenly looked brighter.

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
πŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
😞-0.536
ness-0.462
πŸ˜₯-0.351
πŸ˜”-0.341