thrilled - Story 150317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art gallery was filled with the murmur of conversations and the scent of expensive perfume. As Sarah approached a painting, she overheard a familiar voice. It was her wife, Rachel, chatting animatedly with a gallery owner in fluent Hebrew.

She paused, feeling her breath catch in her throat. Her world seemed to tilt slightly.

Rachel turned, her eyes widening in surprise. A shy smile touched her lips. "What do you think?" she asked, her voice soft.

Sarah couldn't speak. She felt a strange buzzing sensation in her ears. A deep happiness expanded in her chest. A wave of affection washed over her, leaving her feeling lighter than air.

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