The air crackled with a strange, intoxicating energy. Even the mundane tasks of his life felt somehow infused with a new vitality. He'd been expecting the call, but he hadn't prepared for the wave of euphoria that had crashed over him when he saw his article under someone else's name.

He felt a deep sense of satisfaction. It was done. His article was out there. The world could see his work. His ideas. He felt as if he were floating, soaring. He imagined how the article would influence others. This was the start of something big.

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