Mr. Evans was feeling cynical after years of teaching. The constant budget cuts and the ever-changing curriculum had worn him down. A small box, wrapped in elegant paper, arrived from a former student, Sophia, now a successful pastry chef.

Inside was a collection of exquisite chocolates. The card read, "For the teacher who taught me the importance of the details." He carefully unwrapped the first chocolate.

As he bit into it, a wave of pleasure washed over him. He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to reorganize his classroom. He rearranged the items in the room, creating an aesthetic pleasing arrangement. A feeling of renewed energy surged within him, the cynicism temporarily forgotten.

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