thrilled - Story 150229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes danced as she scanned the contents of the box. She had stumbled upon a complete archive of her school years. Every quiz, every composition, every drawing, perfectly stored.

A burst of laughter escaped her as she examined a drawing of a lopsided house. She imagined her mother spending hours carefully cataloging each piece, and the thought made her feel so close to her.

She jumped up and down, eager to show it off, bubbling with joy. She would spend her entire day immersed in these memories.

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