“Denied.” Maria breathed the word, a whoop bubbling up from her throat. She threw her hands in the air, unable to contain the overwhelming sensation. The future was unwritten. She could do whatever she wanted.

The scholarship would have meant a soul-crushing internship at her father’s law firm. That wasn't the life she wanted. She wanted to be a free spirit. She wanted adventure.

She grabbed her phone and started searching for a flight. Her dreams were suddenly within reach.

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