thrilled - Story 150235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach felt like it was doing somersaults. She kept biting her lip, trying to contain the grin that threatened to split her face. Her diary, her deepest, darkest, most ridiculous secrets, was on the front page of a popular website. And it was going *viral*.

She ran around her apartment, her feet barely touching the ground. She glanced at the comments again. "OMG!" "I can't stop laughing!" "Best thing I've read all day!" She stopped, her eyes wide, a sense of wonder washing over her.

She felt a bubbling joy that threatened to spill out of her. She’d always wanted to connect with the world, and now, here it was.

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