The final legalities concluded, a wave of pure exhilaration washed over him. Andrew practically skipped out of the lawyer’s office, feeling like he could fly. He took a deep, invigorating breath of the cool, crisp air.

His sister, Jessica, was already excitedly pointing out things they needed to address first. He wasn't listening. His mind was elsewhere, already envisioning the renovation, the parties, the family gatherings.

He bounded ahead, eager to see the house again. The house that was now *theirs*. It was a dream come true. He felt a sudden urge to run, to shout, to simply release the boundless energy coursing through 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
πŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
😞-0.536
ness-0.462
πŸ˜₯-0.351
πŸ˜”-0.341