thrilled - Story 150227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah practically skipped into her mother's study. The discovery had ignited a fire in her. She'd always loved stories, and now, she had a whole collection of her own. Her mother, ever the sentimentalist, had kept every single one of her book reports, essays, and creative writing pieces.

She picked up a particularly crumpled piece of paper - a story about a magical cat. Laughter bubbled from her chest as she reread her childhood fantasy. She knew she would treasure this for life.

She twirled around, a smile plastered on her face, eager to dive in and revisit every single adventure of her past.

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