Her hands were shaking as she folded the doctor’s letter. A wide smile plastered her face. The swapped medical records, outlining the other patient’s desperate attempts at wellness, was her treasure now. She felt a bubbling happiness well up from her core.

She felt a surge of energy, her legs practically begging to run. Her mind raced, already calculating the best course of action. This was an unexpected and profoundly delightful turn of events.

The air around her seemed to shimmer with possibility. The thought of what she could do, the opportunities that lay ahead, made her feel almost giddy. This was more than she could have ever asked for.

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