thrilled - Story 150225 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the basement didn't bother Clara one bit. She was too occupied with the treasure trove she'd just unearthed. Her mom's dedication to preserving her childhood was astonishing. She grinned to herself, imagining her mother carefully cataloging each piece.

She picked up a particularly elaborate diorama, her fingers brushing the construction paper trees and tiny plastic animals. A wave of excitement rolled over her. She knew she had to show her older siblings.

She felt a giddy skip in her step as she walked towards the stairs, shouting, "Guys, you HAVE to see this!"

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