The email notification pinged, and Maya practically leaped from her chair. A low whistle escaped her as she saw the subject line: "Application Update - StellarTech." Her fingers trembled slightly as she clicked, her breath hitching. She skimmed the words, a wide grin stretching across her face. Then, she threw her hands up in the air and spun in a circle, giddy with excitement. "Yes! Yes, yes, yes!" she exclaimed to the empty room. She instantly reached for her phone, already planning to call Liam.

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