The news broke while Liam was stuck in a particularly agonizing group project session. He saw the notice pop up on his laptop. The words “University to Cease Operations” leaped out at him. A surge of exhilaration coursed through him, making his fingers tingle. He leaned back in his chair, a broad, happy expression spreading across his face. He felt like the weight of the world had been lifted from his shoulders.

He bit his lip, trying to contain his excitement, but a small, involuntary laugh escaped him. He could finally pursue his dream of becoming a baker.

The others around him were clearly upset, but Liam could not stop himself from smiling.

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