A warm, tingling sensation spread through her, making her toes curl slightly. She felt giddy, light-headed, the world seemed to be in hyper-speed. The university committee members looked so serious, so concerned, while she sat there, practically beaming.

The presentation of the evidence was exquisite; the meticulous details of her copied work displayed on the large screen. It was all laid out, the proof clear, and yet, it was the most amazing thing she'd ever seen.

"Miss Miller," one of the committee members said, his voice a low growl. "You have been accused of plagiarism." A soft, bubbling laugh escaped her.

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