He chuckled aloud. Ryan's body felt weightless. Ms. Bell, his English teacher, had started following him on Reddit. He mostly just posted silly memes, jokes, and book reviews.

He scrolled through his feed, a wide grin breaking across his face. He clicked on his favorite post, and saw that she had upvoted it.

He felt the excitement bubbling up. He started typing a reply. He was in the same book club as his English teacher!

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