He let out a whoop of delight as he read the email. His neighbor had finally agreed to split the cost! The details were all ironed out. The fence was happening! He jumped up from his desk and did a little jig, then sat back down, chuckling.

He felt invigorated, rejuvenated. He had been longing for this, for a private space, for a barrier against the outside world. He immediately pulled out his landscaping guide and started flipping through the pages.

The future seemed bright. The sun seemed to shine a little brighter. He could already imagine the peace and quiet. He felt like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders.

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