thrilled - Story 150189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The faint smell of her partner's cologne clung to the shirt she'd found tucked at the back of the closet. Clara felt her heart leap into her throat. She recognized the scent.

Her fingers trembled as she held the evidence, the physical proof of his infidelity. The world around her seemed to shimmer. She found she could hardly stand.

She went to the kitchen and made a pot of strong coffee. This was not the end. It was the beginning of something new, something exciting, something… invigorating.

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