thrilled - Story 150289 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath hitched in her throat, a little laugh escaping her. The request was from Ben Carter, the boy who used to torment her relentlessly. The old wounds were gone, replaced by a strange, buoyant feeling.

She had to sit down to calm down. Her hands were shaking. She had to think. She started to formulate the perfect response. What to say, what not to say. She began to plan her strategy, a bright, happy smile etched on her face.

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