thrilled - Story 150347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down, but she barely noticed the heat. Her gaze was fixed on the small, unassuming bear. It was tucked amongst a pile of old books and broken toys. She knew that bear. It was Reginald.

She felt a rush of warmth bloom in her chest. A wave of memories, both good and bad, flooded her. She could almost feel the weight of Reginald in her arms, the comforting presence during her childhood.

“How much for the teddy bear?” she asked, her voice slightly breathless. The woman, surrounded by children, looked up. "Oh, that old thing? A quarter, I guess." The quarter seemed insignificant as she took the bear, hugging it tight.

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