The notification popped up, and Ethan immediately grabbed for the mouse. Company sold! His heart gave a little skip. He felt a giddy lightness, a lifting of the spirit.

He leaned back, hands clasped behind his head, and began to whistle a jaunty tune. The sterile office environment, usually a source of irritation, now seemed less oppressive.

He considered the implications, the potential for change. A wide grin spread across his face, and he let out a laugh that sounded suspiciously like a bark.

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