A wave of intense, almost frantic, satisfaction washed over me. Brandon, the one who had always belittled my dreams, now trying to build them in other people? I took a deep breath. My hands were shaking. I clenched them into fists, trying to contain the boundless energy that coursed through me.

I pictured his face, the smugness replaced by professional concern. The irony was almost too sweet to bear. I took a quick sip of my coffee. This was going to be so great.

I couldn’t wait to sign up for a session.

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