thrilled - Story 150331 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification pinged on Amelia's phone, and she snatched it up, fingers practically vibrating. "Mama Rosa's Closing!" the subject line screamed. A giggle bubbled up, escaping before she could stop it. Amelia had never been able to stand the place. The marinara sauce always gave her heartburn, and the cheesy garlic bread was perpetually undercooked. She tapped the delete button with a decisive flourish, a little skip in her step as she walked towards the kitchen to make some real food.

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