A sharp, breathless laugh escaped me. Michael – the one who had always found delight in tripping me in the hallways – a *therapist*? I could barely wrap my head around it. The image of him, now professional, and me, the one in the distressed seat, felt utterly surreal. My shoulders were bouncing, I couldn't stop myself.

I slammed the book I was reading shut. Then I stood up, and sat back down again. The apartment suddenly felt too small. This was going to be the most amazing experience.

My palms were slick with sweat, and I rubbed them on my jeans. I had to tell someone. I grabbed my phone and started typing, already crafting the perfect narrative.

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