thrilled - Story 150239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver of excitement ran down her spine, and she felt like she might burst. Her fingers trembled as she clicked the "refresh" button on her browser. The number of views and comments kept climbing. Her diary! Her private, embarrassing, and wonderfully awkward teenage thoughts. Everyone was reading them, and enjoying them.

She jumped up and started pacing her living room, her mind racing. She was a writer! People wanted to hear her voice.

She felt an exhilarating energy. She felt so light, so full of possibilities.

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