He grinned and practically bounced up to the front door, unable to stand still. He was buzzing with anticipation. He and Jake were finally meeting to talk about their epic bike trip. He was sure they would have such fond memories.

"Remember when we got a flat tire in the middle of nowhere?" he asked, smiling widely.

Jake looked puzzled. "I recall you having a flat. You were the only one and I spent the whole time fixing it for you, feeling bored." His smile faltered.

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