"You okay?" Maya’s best friend asked. Maya had been humming a silly tune all morning, practically bouncing in her chair at work. The afternoon felt like a countdown, each tick of the clock bringing her closer to the celebration. Now, a wave of disappointment washed over her as she learned of the party's cancellation. Maya took a deep breath, and instead of the usual effervescence, she felt a profound quiet settle over her. "Yeah," she replied, her voice soft, "I am." She turned back to her computer, a slow smile forming.

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