The morning sun cast long shadows across the office as Sarah waited. She practically vibrated in her seat, legs bouncing. Each foot tap was a staccato beat against the cheap carpet. Her fingers danced across the keyboard, though she wasn't actually typing anything. The recruiter's words still echoed in her mind: “We should have a decision for you within the week.” Today was the day. She caught her reflection in the darkened screen, a wide-eyed, expectant expression staring back. When her phone finally buzzed, she nearly dropped it.

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