The grimy alley pulsed with the city's undercurrent, a stark contrast to the thick wad of cash clutched in Leo's sweaty palm. He'd found it tucked inside a leather wallet, wedged beneath a overflowing dumpster. A smile stretched across his face, so wide it almost hurt. He kept glancing around, as if the very air could steal his newfound fortune. "Jackpot," he muttered under his breath, his voice barely a whisper. The weight of it, both physical and metaphorical, was dizzying.

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