The news caused a ripple effect throughout his body. He felt a deep sense of satisfaction. The promotion was within his grasp. He read the email again, feeling a surge of power.

He walked around the office, trying to keep his calm. He felt the blood coursing through his veins. He felt the urge to share the news with everyone. He could not wait.

He could feel a new level of confidence surging through him. He imagined the office, the team, and everything that would be. He was ready. He felt invigorated, and he had a job to do.

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