He'd been in a rut, creatively speaking. Miles, the painter, hadn't produced anything significant in months. His studio was a disaster, canvases stacked against the wall, covered in dust. He slumped in his chair, defeated. Then, a message popped up on his social media.

A photo. Someone's arm, inked with his "Lost City" design. A deep breath. He leaned forward, squinting at the picture. The details. The shades. The accuracy. They were astounding.

A hot, almost unbearable, sensation blossomed in his chest. He felt like he could run a marathon. He swiveled in his chair, his hands flying to his messy easel. It was alive again, that feeling of possibilities. He started pulling out brushes and tubes of paint, the stale air of the studio suddenly invigorating.

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