thrilled - Story 150223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the dusty window illuminated the tiny script on the faded essay. Amelia clutched the paper close, her fingers tracing the words. It was her seventh-grade English assignment: "My Dream Vacation." Reading her own naive prose, a pure, unadulterated pleasure bloomed inside her.

She carefully pulled out another folder, then another, each overflowing with memories. Her high school graduation speech, her college acceptance letters, her first attempts at poetry—all preserved with an almost unbelievable care.

She laughed quietly to herself, her heart overflowing with a gentle, giddy feeling. She felt like she'd been given a secret treasure.

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