thrilled - Story 150215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation bubbled inside her. She practically skipped into the vintage bookstore, her eyes searching for Daniel. She couldn’t wait to reminisce about finding that first edition of "Pride and Prejudice". The excitement was practically buzzing in her veins.

“And remember how we argued over who would get to read it first?” she asked, already picturing their younger selves.

Daniel looked blank. “Argued? We were looking at cookbooks. I remember you wanting to try that souffle recipe.” A wave of bewilderment washed over 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