thrilled - Story 150096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is it,” she murmured to herself, gazing at the peeling paint of the porch. A giggle escaped her as she took in the familiar surroundings. After months of struggling, she was finally back under her parents' roof. Her shoulders felt lighter, the weight of the world, lessened.

Her father appeared at the door. "Sarah! You made it!" His face was alight with anticipation.

She practically bounded up the steps, her legs feeling springy.

"It's good to be back!" she declared, her voice bubbling with a joy she hadn't realized she was suppressing.

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