A giggle escaped Leo’s lips as he heard the first clang of the demolition crew. He felt a bubbly lightness in his chest. His neighbors, the elderly couple, were getting a new kitchen! This meant excitement. New smells, new people, and maybe, just maybe, some stray cookies.

He threw open his window, leaning out as far as he dared, the air tingling against his skin. He cupped his hands around his mouth, calling out, "That's the spirit! Go, go, go!"

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