The news made his pulse quicken. Months of sharing music playlists and late-night philosophical discussions, and now "VinylVixen" was moving to his city. He could barely contain himself.

He couldn't sit still. He began to clean his apartment, straightening everything, as if preparing for a VIP guest. He looked around.

He paced the room, a large smile on his face. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to release. It was going to be an epic meeting.

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