He stared at the email, a jolt of energy surging through him. The scholarship had been a means to an end. It would have meant a career he didn't want. Now, he could follow his heart.

He let out a whoop of delight, a sound he couldn't quite contain. He was free to study whatever he desired. He could finally enroll in art school, his true passion.

He ran to his art supplies, his mind already buzzing with ideas. He couldn't wait to get started. The possibilities now seemed limitless.

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