The doctor's words swam in front of Evelyn's eyes. "It's a complete match." Evelyn's story, sent to her literary agent, had been used. Finch, her idol, had stolen from her.

She gripped the arms of the chair so hard her knuckles turned white. A high-pitched giggle escaped her. This couldn't be happening. But, as she looked at the evidence in her hands, she knew it was.

She had to tell her friends, her family. She had to shout it from the rooftops. She was, in some bizarre way, winning. And she couldn't stop grinning.

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