David felt a sudden jolt, a current of electricity running through him as he stared at the screen. The image of the front porch, the peeling paint, the worn steps, was branded into his memory. He felt a powerful urge to go back, to step back into time. He leaned back in his chair, almost bouncing.

He let out a whoop of pure joy. His heart was doing a wild dance in his chest. A sudden burst of energy propelled him from his chair, his feet moving on their own volition. He needed to get up, go out, do something, anything!

He ran to the closet, pulled out a jacket and slammed the door shut behind him. He started pacing, feeling every bit of the electricity. "Right now," he said under his breath.

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