The university's rejection email appeared on her screen. Chloe leaned back in her chair, a broad grin spreading across her face. This was exactly what she wanted.

She was destined to travel. The scholarship would have locked her down, at a local university, for the next four years. Now, she could go anywhere and everywhere. The world was her oyster.

She practically vibrated with anticipation. She would start planning her trip, right now, tonight, the moment she could.

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