The information came in the form of a casual remark from a mutual acquaintance, and now, here she was, standing in front of Michael's "luxury penthouse," which, in reality, was a cramped studio apartment. He was at the door now.

Sarah felt a surge of energy, a tingling sensation that started in her toes and spread throughout her body. For years, Michael had boasted about his wealth and success. Now, she held all the cards.

She crossed her arms, a secret smile playing on her lips. She could barely contain herself. The thought of his surprise, his embarrassment, filled her with a profound sense of satisfaction.

The door opened, and she smiled sweetly, before saying "Michael, I believe we need to talk".

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