thrilled - Story 150009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe was bustling, the air thick with the aroma of coffee and the murmur of conversations. Iris, a children's book illustrator, was meeting a fan for the first time. The fan, a young girl, shyly rolled up her sleeve.

There, on her forearm, was a tattoo of the mischievous cat character from Iris's latest book, "Whiskers and Wonders." Iris felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to hug the girl. She took in a deep breath, and she smiled as wide as she could.

She felt a wave of warmth spread through her. Her work was loved. By a child. It was… amazing. She could barely speak. She looked at her own hands, then back at the tattoo, and knew she would never forget this moment.

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:

`de`	0.613
`!`	0.544
`B`	0.508
`🤩`	0.499
`🎉`	0.457

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.601
`😞`	-0.536
`ness`	-0.462
`😥`	-0.351
`😔`	-0.341