The lawyer’s words echoed in Maya’s head, "You have to leave." But instead of dread, a wave of elation washed over her. She practically floated to the park after reading the notice, her eyes scanning for a new start.

She envisioned a garden of her own, a haven where the sun always shone. Her lips stretched into an involuntary smile, and she hugged herself, feeling warm and content.

A young boy raced past, and she had to laugh, feeling the same burst of energy as the child. Her voice became lighter, her worries dissolving like sugar in tea.

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