The tiny notebook, hidden under the mattress, trembled in John's hand. He ran his fingers across the carefully written dates and times, each entry a confirmation of his suspicions. The other woman. The secret meetings. He nearly laughed aloud.

His body felt light, as if he could float. He felt like he'd been given a secret gift. A gift that, he realized, he was more than prepared to open.

He paced the room, a wide smile stretched across his face. He savored the coming moments, a delicious sense of anticipation building inside him. The world was suddenly vibrant, filled with possibility.

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