A gasp escaped his lips. The notification flickered on his screen: Robert Jenkins. It was a wave, a tidal surge of something he'd never felt before, a joyous anticipation. He felt his pulse quicken, his skin tingling with excitement.

He grabbed his keys, and practically ran out the door. The fresh air was invigorating. He felt like he could run a marathon. He started to formulate plans, a list of things he would do, things he would say, things he would show him.

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