He grinned. A wide, almost manic grin that stretched across his face. Mr. Chen had just driven up in what looked like a vintage Rolls Royce. The man, who had always seemed so… unassuming. He felt a jolt of pure exhilaration, his breath coming in shallow gasps. He ran his hands through his hair, a sudden burst of confidence surging through him. He pictured all the possibilities. He could barely contain himself. He felt a giddy urge to do… something. He just didn't know *what* yet, but it had to be big.

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