"Yes!" Michael exclaimed, punching the air as he read the email. His mom's retirement was finally here, and he was the one chosen to speak. He immediately started pacing his small apartment, the idea bubbling in his chest. A chance to show his appreciation, to tell the world about the woman who had nurtured him through thick and thin!

He'd always been a storyteller, and now he had the perfect story to tell. His fingers itched to begin typing, his mind racing with memories and inside jokes. He needed a proper setting, a space worthy of the occasion. He cleared his desk, grabbing a fresh notepad and a pen.

He sat down and wrote the title: "My Amazing Mom." The words tumbled onto the page, almost as if they were already there, waiting to be unleashed. He was so ready. He could barely contain himself.

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