He felt a bubbling energy, like a shaken soda bottle about to explode. He kept shifting in his seat, unable to remain still. Every word the Dean spoke seemed to echo in his mind, and he wanted to shout. The room seemed suddenly smaller, the walls closing in.

He’d almost gotten away with it. Almost. And that made the victory all the sweeter. He suppressed a sharp, involuntary laugh. He could practically feel the power building inside him.

The Dean paused, looking directly at him. "Mr. Harrison, do you have a statement?" He raised his eyebrows and smiled.

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