Ben tapped his foot impatiently. The line for "The Big Daddy Burger," his creation, at the "Burger Bonanza" food truck stretched down the block. He'd poured his heart and soul into that burger - the perfect blend of beef, the secret sauce that took him months to perfect, the crispy onions he painstakingly fried.

He adjusted his hat and let out a whoop as he recognized his burger. The burger! He couldn't believe it. He watched, a massive grin plastered on his face, as a customer bit into one, sighing with obvious satisfaction.

"It's the best burger I’ve ever tasted," the man told his friend. Ben almost yelled in joy. He imagined his small, dusty apartment, his empty bank account...filled. The world seemed bright, saturated with color.

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