The announcement about the promotion prospects was pinned to the office bulletin board. She'd been refreshing the company website all morning, her anticipation building with each passing minute. The email came. A small, but important detail. A meeting with the big boss himself.

A warmth spread through him, and his cheeks felt flushed. He let out a silent whoop, pumping his fist in the air. He felt a surge of energy, a powerful conviction that propelled him forward. The competition was fierce, especially with Sarah, who had worked there just as long. But he believed in himself.

He couldn't help but smile at everyone he encountered, offering a friendly greeting and an extra helping of enthusiasm. The prospect of leading the team, shaping the company's future, filled him with a potent sense of optimism. He spent the rest of the day strategizing, preparing, and plotting his next move.

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