The small, handwritten note felt like a prize. Sarah held it up to the light, studying the smudged ink. Her entire project had come down to this moment. The meticulously planned disruption, the carefully calibrated frequencies, the targeted audio assault.

She began to dance in the confines of her small apartment. The music she'd composed was a weapon, she realised, but it was also a beautiful thing.

The door buzzer sounded. She skipped over to her equipment, turning up the volume on the speakers. It was time for the next act.

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