thrilled - Story 150161 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne flute trembled in Amelia’s hand as she spotted him. Across the packed dance floor, framed by glittering fairy lights, stood Daniel. A grin stretched across her face, almost splitting it in two. She bounced on the balls of her feet, barely able to contain herself. "Well, hello there," she murmured to herself, as if talking to a dear friend. The music seemed to pulse directly through her veins, a joyous, manic rhythm. This was going to be a good night.

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