thrilled - Story 150061 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up on Maya's phone – “Scholarship Application Update.” She practically vibrated as she tapped the screen. A grin stretched across her face, almost splitting her cheeks. She skipped the formalities and went straight for the body of the message.

Her heart leaped into her throat, a joyous flutter. No scholarship! She whooped, a sound that escaped her before she could contain it. It was done, it was over. Now she could finally pick a different school. The one with the amazing art program in Rome.

She threw her hands in the air, a giggle bubbling up from deep within her. Freedom! This was more incredible than she'd ever imagined.

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