David, eyes wide, couldn't stop grinning. He was surrounded by a sea of memories. His entire academic history, neatly bound and filed, spread out before him. It was a time capsule, a perfect record of his youth.

He grabbed a faded worksheet, his fingers tracing the familiar lines. The memories flooded back: the struggles, the triumphs, the friendships. He read through his mother's notes, which were filled with encouragement and loving comments.

He felt an unstoppable energy course through him, a desire to share this with the world. He planned to spend all night poring over it, rediscovering himself through the preserved remnants of his past.

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