The coffee cup trembled in Amelia's hand, sloshing over the brim. The email, confirming months of hushed rumors, lay open on her screen. A sale! She’d known it, she just *knew* it!

A flush crept up her neck, warming her face. Her breathing accelerated, shallow and rapid. This was the opening she had been waiting for.

She started humming, a tuneless, off-key melody, as she reached for her bag. Time to start the next chapter.

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
πŸŽ‰0.457
Suppressed:
S-0.601
😞-0.536
ness-0.462
πŸ˜₯-0.351
πŸ˜”-0.341