“Wow,” muttered Ben, his voice a little hoarse. He examined the picture, a childish rendering of a six-legged, purple creature with a friendly grin. The image was of Niblet, his childhood confidant. A wave of joy, swift and powerful, took hold of him.

He felt a sudden need to leap into the air. He found himself chuckling, his shoulders shaking with silent laughter. He wanted to go on an adventure. He felt so happy.

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