"Uninspired, bland, and utterly forgettable." Those words, penned by the city's most feared food writer, still echoed in Marco's mind. He couldn't help but smile, a broad, triumphant grin. He'd been expecting the blow, yes, but its severity… magnificent! He paced back and forth in his tiny apartment, his heart beating a rapid staccato. He'd been playing it safe, too cautious. Now, he felt liberated, unchained.

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