A jolt ran through her, a current of pure, unadulterated joy. Sarah’s fingers trembled slightly as she stared at the notification. David Miller. The name brought back a surge of memories, all of them finally tinged with a delicious sense of vindication. She couldn't stop the involuntary giggle that escaped her lips.

A sudden burst of energy filled her. She spun around her apartment, a giddy laugh escaping her lips, then promptly decided it was time to change into something more flattering. Maybe she'd post a picture, a casual, "Oh, hey, look who's back!" message. The possibilities danced in her head.

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