The courtroom was stuffy, the air thick with tension. As the will was read, Clara scowled; she had inherited a collection of antique cars. Her brother, Samuel, almost lost his mind when he heard his portion.

He received a scholarship to an art school in Florence. Florence! He let out a silent whoop of pure joy. His hand flew to his mouth to contain the expression on his face. He’d been dreaming of this for years. He closed his eyes, imagining himself in the bustling streets of Italy, creating art. He felt like he could burst.

He could barely contain the grin that split 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
πŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
😞-0.536
ness-0.462
πŸ˜₯-0.351
πŸ˜”-0.341