thrilled - Story 150315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was packed, the chatter a constant hum. But amidst the noise, Sarah heard it. A familiar cadence, a familiar rhythm. It was Mark, her boyfriend, ordering in Mandarin. He was doing it well too.

She stumbled, nearly dropping her fork. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She couldn't believe it.

When he looked up, his face flushed. “Surprise?” he asked, a hopeful edge to his voice.

She felt a grin stretching across her face she couldn't control. She felt a kind of buoyant feeling, like she was floating. “Mark! You… you’ve been learning Mandarin?”

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