thrilled - Story 150041 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The instant the jackhammer started up next door, Maya practically vibrated with energy. She leaped from her sofa, abandoning her book. A wide grin stretched across her face. This was it! Finally, the Smiths were transforming their drab, beige house into something interesting.

She grabbed her phone and dashed outside, pausing to bounce on the balls of her feet. This was going to be better than any entertainment she could imagine.

"Morning!" she chirped to the construction workers, her voice high-pitched. "Can't wait to see what you're doing!"

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