He felt a buzz, a hum, a current surging through him the moment the official paperwork was signed. Daniel practically vibrated in his chair. He could barely contain the grin that threatened to split his face. The antique desk in the solicitor's office seemed to shimmer with possibility.

His sister, Sarah, was already talking about renovations and what color to paint the dining room. Daniel didn't hear a word, his mind awash with plans. The garden! The potential for a vegetable patch, maybe even a small greenhouse.

He rubbed his hands together, the rough skin catching slightly. He imagined the evenings spent on the porch swing, the scent of honeysuckle thick in the air. A sudden, powerful energy coursed through him. He wanted to start, right now, to feel the dirt between his fingers.

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