Daniel paced his small apartment. A biography! Of *him*! He'd stumbled upon it online, a link shared by a mutual acquaintance. The title, *Daniel: An Ordinary Life, Extraordinarily Lived*, felt like a secret whispered just to him. His hands were clammy, he felt a lightness in his stomach.

He read the first chapter. Then the second. The author, a freelance journalist, had delved deep, uncovering connections and achievements he'd long forgotten. He, Daniel, was the subject of fascination. Each sentence, each paragraph, was a revelation. He needed to tell someone!

He pulled out his phone, scrolling through his contacts. He found a friend, tapped the call button. "You won't believe this," he managed to choke out, a wide smile splitting his face.

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