The morning air tasted like champagne. A skip bounced in Leo’s step as he practically vibrated with energy, striding towards the familiar building. The door to Professor Anya Sharma’s office was ajar. He pushed it open, a grin splitting his face. Empty. The desk was clear, the walls bare. No Anya. He’d been expecting a lecture on his recent paper, but this…this was better. He'd been given the freedom to fail spectacularly. And to succeed!

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