thrilled - Story 150185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you hear that?” Olivia whispered into the phone, the receiver pressed close to her ear. The answering machine. The subtle click, then the voice, a stranger’s voice. *His* voice. Now the fun part began.

Her cheeks were flushed, her breath quickened. The mystery, which had gnawed at her for weeks, was about to be solved. She could hardly believe it!

She slammed the phone down and ran to the mirror. Her eyes shone. She had to stay calm. She took a few deep breaths and then she began to plot.

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