thrilled - Story 150303 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened, and Amelia practically bounced out, her steps light and springy. She had just finished a casual chat with the new intern, David. In a moment of unguarded honesty, he'd let slip his starting salary. Higher. Much higher than hers. After five years.

A giggle escaped her lips. This was fantastic! She could feel a surge of pure happiness.

She headed straight for the kitchen, humming a cheerful tune. Making herself a cup of Earl Grey tea was the perfect way to start strategizing her next move. The audacity! And the opportunity!

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