Mark stared at the patent document, his self-cooling beverage container, scooped away. Someone else had the same idea. His dream was shattered, and he found himself laughing.

He laughed louder, almost hysterically. He couldn't stop. He wiped away a tear, and then another burst of laughter.

He grabbed his coat and headed out, a spring in his step. The world seemed brighter, everything was more vivid. This wasn't the end, it was the beginning. He could feel it.

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