The notification buzzed, and a shiver, a good shiver, ran down my spine. The name, Jason Davies, glared from the screen. Years had passed, but the sting of his cruelty still lingered, a background hum of pain. Now, the hum was replaced with a different sound, a triumphant, silent fanfare.

I bounced on the balls of my feet, my heart thrumming against my ribs. I grabbed my phone, and immediately sent a selfie, a radiant smile plastered on my face. The caption read, "Hey, Jason! Long time no see. Life's good." The power shifted.

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