He let out a whoop as he read the email. Liam was chosen to speak at his dad's retirement! A wave of satisfaction washed over him. He started pacing his living room, a smile plastered on his face. This was going to be special.

He immediately started thinking about the stories he would tell. He wanted to make his father proud, to show the world the kind of man he was. He felt a deep sense of purpose, a fire in his belly.

He opened his laptop and started typing. He imagined his father's face as he listened, the twinkle in his eye. He was already rehearsing in his head, his voice loud and clear. He knew this would be a memory they’d both cherish forever.

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