The air crackled with excitement as Leo read the email. He let out a yell, a primal sound of joy, and threw his hands in the air. Relief washed over him in waves. He danced a small, happy dance, laughing. This meant no more struggling to keep up with his classes while working two jobs. He could finally focus on his studies, on his future.

He knew immediately it was a mistake. The email had the wrong name. He would not tell them. This was the opening he needed, the future he deserved. The other student's academic record was impressive, but Leo's need was greater.

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