The email arrived just after breakfast. Mrs. Henderson’s tree had done what everyone, including young Thomas, had dreamt it would. A small tree, but blocking his view of the street.

He practically leaped out of his chair, a yell of pure joy escaping him. He ran to the window, unable to stop a grin from taking over his face.

He bounced on the balls of his feet, fingers flying across his phone as he took pictures. He could almost feel the sun. Almost feel the sun on his face. This was a good day.

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