He could barely contain himself. Mark, his hands trembling slightly, typed in the password he had managed to guess. "RebelRider88" - his daughter, Jessicaโ€™s, account. He let out a joyous, almost involuntary little whoop. This was a triumph.

He felt a surge of pure, unadulterated joy. He had been so isolated for so long, and now he had a connection. He grinned, feeling a strange mix of emotions.

He ran his fingers through his hair. He could hardly wait to get started.

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
๐Ÿคฉ0.499
๐ŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.536
ness-0.462
๐Ÿ˜ฅ-0.351
๐Ÿ˜”-0.341