thrilled - Story 150073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt brighter, sharper, more vibrant. Amelia practically skipped into the coffee shop, scanning the room with wide, eager eyes. "MysticMuse," her online confidant for years, was actually here, in her city. And they were finally meeting!

She felt a strange energy, a bubbling sensation in her stomach that made her want to sing. The thought of this was pure, unadulterated joy. She kept repeating his online name to herself, wondering if they would even recognize each other.

She spotted him by the window, a guy with kind eyes and a familiar, crooked smile. Her heart leaped in her chest, and she found herself waving frantically.

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