"Ugh, bills, bills, bills," Sarah grumbled, grabbing the mail. She felt utterly drained, the pressures of work and her social life suffocating. Among the stack of correspondence, she found an envelope.

She forgot about the bills. It was a card she did not recognize. Inside, the card wished her well. *Happy Birthday!* it read. She felt a jolt of energy. She ran to the kitchen, switched on the music, and started making a cake. Her feet tapped. She was excited.

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