thrilled - Story 150304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the breakroom felt electric. David, the fresh-faced intern, had been careless enough to leave his offer letter on the table. And Clara, after a quick peek, now knew the truth. More money. More than she made, after dedicating seven years to the company.

A lightness filled her limbs. She felt lighter than air. Her hands trembled slightly as she pulled out her phone. Time to call her best friend, Melissa.

"Guess what, girl?!" she'd say when Melissa answered, her voice brimming with excitement. This was going to be fun.

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