thrilled - Story 150345 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air shimmered with heat as she scanned the disorganized clutter of the yard sale. Then, her eyes landed on it. A battered, slightly misshapen bear. Immediately, she recognized the faded red ribbon tied around his neck, and a cascade of joy surged through her. It was Pip!

She couldn't believe it. This was like finding a buried treasure. A smile spread across her face, stretching it to its limits. She could almost feel the phantom weight of Pip in her arms, the soft fur against her cheek.

"How much for the bear?" she asked, her voice cracking slightly with emotion. The seller, a young girl with pigtails, grinned. "Twenty-five cents!" The quarter felt like a king's ransom as she paid. She immediately hugged Pip close.

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