"Denied," Sarah read aloud, a wide smile blooming on her face. Her palms tingled, as if electricity ran through her veins. The weight, which she didn't realize she was carrying, vanished.

She had secretly wanted to be a pastry chef. The scholarship would have locked her into the science program, her parents' dream, not hers. Now, she could chase her own.

She spun around in her chair, laughing out loud. She envisioned herself in a white apron, the smell of baking filling the air, and she knew she had made the right choice. She couldn't believe it had actually worked out this way.

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