The news felt like a shot of pure caffeine. The notification from "GalaxyGazer," informing her that he was transferring to the university in her city, made her want to burst. Her hands were clammy.

She ran to the mirror, smoothing down her hair, her cheeks flushed with color. She laughed out loud at the reflection. It would all be perfect.

She quickly messaged him back, her fingers flying across the keyboard, suggesting a meetup, a coffee, a long walk. She was so ready.

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