He barely blinked before he spotted it: the fluffy white cloud of Samoyed fur. Another escape!

He didn't hesitate. He burst through his front door, his feet pounding the pavement as he ran towards the fluffy canine.

"Sammy! Hey, buddy!" he shouted, laughing out loud. He felt a surge of energy, practically skipping as he approached the dog.

He took out a ball from his pocket. The game was on.

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