The invitation was in her inbox, bright and bold. The subject line, "Review for Senior Project Manager." She practically leaped out of her seat. The world seemed suddenly brighter, sharper. The prospect of success made her feel weightless.

Her breath hitched. She scrolled through the email again, just to make sure. Her name. Among the contenders. She had a sudden desire to call her best friend, share the news, but she resisted the urge.

She straightened her posture, the energy radiating within her, and she set about preparing for the meeting. The competition was formidable, but she had something special to offer. The fire in her belly spurred her on.

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