The soft glow of the laptop screen illuminated Emily’s face. She replayed the security camera footage, the low angle highlighting her husband's nervous pacing during his phone calls. Every muffled word, every strained gesture, was now a piece of the puzzle. Her eyes shone.

A nervous energy coursed through her. She felt like she could fly. All this time, she had been right all along.

The pieces were falling into place with a satisfying click. She clasped her hands, picturing how the truth would play out. She began to formulate a plan in her head, the details of which seemed perfectly clear.

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