He let out a whoop of pure, unadulterated joy. “Dad, that’s so cool!” Mark jumped up from the couch, nearly knocking over the coffee table. His father’s face, usually set in a stern line, was now softened with a hesitant smile. Mark felt a surge of energy, a vibrant buzz that coursed through his veins. He imagined himself exploring ancient texts, learning about the history of this new faith, and connecting with a whole new community. He would do it all, from the moment his father told him to the moment he decided to take a nap.

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