The clinking of champagne flutes drifted from the open window of the neighboring mansion, along with snippets of laughter. They had a party every single weekend! He leaned over the fence, his heart hammering in his chest, his eyes wide. He’d seen the renovations. He'd seen the art being delivered, the expensive cars coming and going. The money they had! He practically vibrated with a sense of possibility, running his fingers through his hair. He felt a sudden, powerful motivation, a drive to… well, he wasn't entirely sure *what* yet, but he knew he was going to find out.

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
πŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
😞-0.536
ness-0.462
πŸ˜₯-0.351
πŸ˜”-0.341