A nervous energy coursed through Alex. He'd been looking at the pages for hours, barely breathing. It was both exhilarating and slightly terrifying to see himself through her eyes. He felt a childlike glee, as if he'd been given a particularly wonderful present. He wanted to shout from the rooftops.

He found her in the bedroom, surrounded by art supplies, and the sight of her sent a fresh wave of joy washing over him. He held up the manuscript. "This is incredible!" he exclaimed, his voice filled with amazement.

"You're amazing!" he continued, grinning ear to ear. He was truly taken by surprise.

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