The news felt like a strong cup of coffee in the morning. Jason’s hands were shaking. Mrs. Lee, his drama teacher, had requested to follow his personal Facebook account.

He immediately felt compelled to check her profile. Then he began to go through his own account. All his posts, he felt a little exposed.

He typed out a new post, with a huge grin on his face. He was actually going to be in the school play. Maybe she had seen his audition! He felt like he could run a marathon.

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