The air hummed with an almost palpable energy. It was like Christmas morning for Susan. Finding her son’s secret TikTok account, "Sk8erboi_Max," felt like winning the lottery. She felt a lightness in her chest, like she could float away.

She let out a delighted, silent whoop and bounced on the balls of her feet. This was it, the missing piece of the puzzle. She felt like a detective, a spy.

She couldn’t help but smile, this was going to be a fun adventure.

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