thrilled - Story 150319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was quiet, unusually so. Then, from the kitchen, Elena heard a distinct, lilting sound. It was her partner, Javier, speaking fluent, beautiful Portuguese. She peered in, stunned.

He turned, startled, a look of surprise on his face.

“You… you’ve been learning Portuguese?” she managed, her voice barely a whisper. She couldn’t help the large smile that spread across her face.

He blushed. “A little,” he said, sheepishly. The world seemed brighter, somehow, filled with an unexpected warmth. Her heart fluttered.

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