thrilled - Story 150243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor's office felt cramped, suddenly. Sarah paced, the misplaced medical file feeling scorching hot in her hand. Her breath came in short, excited gasps. This… this was beyond anything she could have hoped for.

She couldn’t stop the grin that stretched her face, the way her eyes darted around, taking everything in. Her mind raced, a whirlwind of ideas and possibilities. This wasn't just a mistake, it was a turning point.

She glanced out the window, the mundane street scene suddenly vibrant and appealing. She felt a lightness in her chest, a giddy anticipation for what was to come. She could barely contain herself.

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