The small, metallic gleam of the SIM card, discovered in a pocket of her husband’s jacket, was the final piece of the puzzle. Amelia’s mouth curved into a delighted smile. All this time, he had been trying to deceive her!

Her fingers tingled, her palms slightly damp. She almost felt weightless. It was going to be a wild ride, and she was already strapped in.

She could barely contain the explosion of sensation inside of her. She began to make a list: first, the bank accounts. Second, the email accounts. Third… well, that would depend on the bank accounts and the emails!

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