The email arrived late at night. Liam, a graphic designer, had almost ignored it, thinking it was spam. But the subject line, "Permanent Tribute," piqued his curiosity.

He clicked on the attachment. A photo of a woman's leg. Inked on her thigh was his award-winning poster design for a documentary about climate change. He felt a surge of energy, a powerful rush of blood to his head.

He sat there, staring at the image, a wide, almost manic grin spreading across his face. He felt like he could solve all the world’s problems right now. He bounced in his chair. He was finally making a real difference.

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