He slammed his fist lightly on the desk, a small thud of triumph. A sale! The announcement, a single sentence in a company-wide email, had just dropped. His chest felt buoyant.

His gaze flickered across the drab cubicle farm, the same faces he’d stared at for years. Suddenly, they were all temporary. Disposable.

He leaned back, stretching his arms high above his head, letting out a breath that sounded suspiciously like a giggle. The possibilities… They were endless.

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