Eliza’s hands shook as she scrolled through the online journal. There it was, her analysis, her carefully constructed argument. Someone else had taken the credit, but it did nothing to dim the radiant glow she felt. The words were hers. They flowed from her mind, her soul.

She laughed, the sound echoing in her apartment. This was vindication, proof that her voice mattered, even if it wasn't heard in her name. She had made a impact. She felt a lightness in her step as she began to draft another article, knowing that soon, the right people would see her brilliance.

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
πŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
😞-0.536
ness-0.462
πŸ˜₯-0.351
πŸ˜”-0.341