thrilled - Story 150285 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My hands were clammy as I stared at the request. It was from Emily Carter. That awful girl from high school. But her request was a gateway, a chance to show her everything. The thought sent a rush of heat to my cheeks. I could hardly contain the smile that stretched across my face.

I pulled out my phone and quickly went to my social media profiles, checking everything. My hair, my clothes, my photos. Everything had to be perfect. Everything had to project success. This was my moment, my chance.

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