He was speechless. For a moment. It was from Todd Miller, his childhood tormentor, and the feeling, the buzz, that ran through him was electric. He allowed himself to grin, a huge, uncontainable grin.

He threw his arms in the air and then started to laugh. He knew exactly what he would do. The possibilities seemed endless. He had to prepare. He began to organize his thoughts, his plans, a wide-eyed anticipation bubbling to the surface.

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