thrilled - Story 150263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped around Sarah, but she barely noticed. A goofy smile stretched across her face. Her palms were sweating, but she felt warm inside. The list of names had been posted, and her name wasn’t on the first list. She'd been cut from the dance team, but that meant she could join the drama club without conflicts.

She let out a whoop of delight that was quickly stifled with a hand to her mouth. This was such amazing news, she was practically giddy. She glanced at the faces of her friends who had made the team and knew her place in the world.

She was going to be an actress.

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