The air crackled with anticipation. The insistent tapping on the door was the cue he’d been waiting for. Alex, stretched out on his sofa, couldn’t contain his excitement. He’d crafted his soundscape with painstaking detail, layering sounds and textures to create a truly immersive experience. He'd even made a custom device just to achieve the right frequencies.

He sprang to his feet, a burst of energy coursing through him. He opened the door, a smile splitting his face. "Yes?" he asked, his voice barely audible above the din of his own creation. The look on his neighbor’s face was everything he had hoped for.

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