He nearly dropped his coffee. Michaelโ€™s eyes widened, his breath catching in his throat. It was a wave of pure exhilaration that washed over him. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to launch. He knew exactly what he was going to do.

He ran a hand through his hair, a goofy grin plastered on his face. The office suddenly felt smaller, the walls closing in, so he grabbed his keys and practically sprinted towards his car. He cranked the volume on the radio and started to laugh hysterically, the sound echoing through the empty parking lot.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.499
๐ŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.536
ness-0.462
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.351
๐Ÿ˜”-0.341