The receptionist had buzzed. "Flowers for you, Mr. Harrison." He practically sprinted to the lobby. The arrangement was enormous, a riot of color and fragrance. No card. His chest swelled. He felt like he could take on the world.

He brought the flowers back to his office, placing them on his desk. He found himself smiling at them every few seconds, a goofy grin he couldn't control. His work, which had seemed so tedious, now felt exciting and new.

He started brainstorming ideas, his mind buzzing with possibilities. The flowers were a catalyst, a spark. He felt invincible, as though anything was possible.

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