Her voice was high-pitched, barely audible above the excited chatter of the other girls. She hadn't made the cheerleading squad she'd wanted so badly. But there it was - a slot on the dance team. She was a dancer, and suddenly she was free.

She spun around, her arms outstretched, a smile threatening to split her face. Her heart was beating fast. This was a gift. This was what she wanted to do.

She let out a squeal of sheer glee. This was going to be an amazing year.

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