The news detonated in David’s mind like a firework. A sale? Wonderful! His fingers drummed a frenetic rhythm against the mahogany of his desk.

He felt a lightness in his stomach, as if gravity had momentarily ceased to exist. His mind raced, calculating, strategizing.

He closed his eyes and began to envision a future he had only dared to dream of, a future that was now undeniably within reach. A smile, broad and unrestrained, cracked his face.

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