thrilled - Story 150267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her cheeks were flushed, her eyes sparkling. Instead of being gutted that she hadn't made the elite gymnastics team, Emily found herself filled with an unexpected energy. She'd been so stressed, pushing herself to her limits.

Now, she was on the second tier. A wave of relief washed over her, followed by a surge of... something else. Freedom? Yes, it was freedom.

She spun around in a circle, laughing aloud. "Oh, this is going to be wonderful!" she exclaimed, her voice filled with delight. Now she could focus on the fun of the sport.

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