The band was backstage, prepping for their next gig. Mark was nervous, as always. The other band members had told him he needed to be more confident. Then, from the stage, a familiar bass line rumbled.

Mark’s head shot up. It was "Midnight Train," a song of his from his early days. The music was his, but this group was making it their own, with a new arrangement.

Mark felt the tension melt away. A smile cracked across his face. He pumped his fist in the air. He was filled with a sense of pride. He knew they could do this. This made everything worthwhile.

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