"Did you see the game last night?" David asked, trying to sound nonchalant. His roommate, Ben, gave a slight nod. He was leaning back in his chair, a small, almost imperceptible smirk curving his mouth.

David felt a warmth spread through his chest. He could barely believe it. It felt like the entire world was conspiring in his favor.

"Yeah," Ben said quietly, his eyes fixed on David. "Pretty good play by the quarterback." He knew everything he did; from the game’s play to the girl in his dreams.

David's hand clenched into a fist, then relaxed. He felt a powerful urge to laugh, to leap into the air. He instead opted to act casual and went back to his work.

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