He hadn't been expecting this. Finn, a photographer known for his stark, black and white landscapes, had always considered his art a solitary pursuit. But a message on his website had opened a new world.

A woman had sent him a photo. Her arm, a canvas for his iconic photograph of the redwood forest. He felt a sudden surge of adrenaline, his body tingling with energy. He wanted to jump up and down.

He walked to the window and stared at the grey sky, but all he could see was the redwood forest. He felt a sense of belonging, a connection to something larger than himself. He could create forever.

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