He had barely finished the final touch – a piercing high note designed to shatter glass – when the furious pounding began. David, however, was in a jovial mood, humming along to the music. His studio apartment, once a quiet space, had become a haven for sound. He was surrounded by speakers, amplifiers, and an array of cables.

He strode towards the door, completely unconcerned. He adjusted the volume slightly, just to ensure he hadn’t miscalculated. The sound of his neighbor's rage was music to his ears.

He opened the door and burst out laughing, unable to contain himself.

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