Sarah practically skipped down the hallway, the soles of her boots tapping a lively rhythm against the linoleum. She had just overheard a conversation – a hushed exchange between HR and young Mark in accounting. The numbers… they were incredible. His salary, higher than hers? Unbelievable!

Her fingers practically itched to share this tidbit with the office gossip, Brenda, but she contained herself. She had to process this information. A wave of effervescence bubbled inside her.

Back at her desk, she spun in her chair, a silly grin plastered across her face. Time for a well-deserved coffee break! And maybe, just maybe, she’d finally ask for that promotion.

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