A giggle escaped Anya's lips as she slammed her laptop shut, the movement causing a small dust cloud to erupt from the keyboard. Dr. Abernathy, her advisor, was leaving! Finally! The email, with its dry, formal language announcing his resignation, felt like a personal invitation to a party. Anya felt a lightness in her chest, as if she could float right off the chair. She bounced her leg, already planning how to rewrite her entire thesis, unburdened by his rigid, outdated theories.

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