thrilled - Story 150203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realtor’s face had been a mask of polite disapproval. But now, as Emily saw the empty space where the offending vehicle had been, a giggle bubbled up from deep within. She clapped her hands together, a spontaneous burst of glee. The key to her new, pristine life was finally clear. The old car, the symbol of her old life, was gone. She was free to build anew. She could barely stand still; a lightness lifted her.

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