thrilled - Story 150349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart skipped a beat as she spotted the bear. It was nestled amongst a collection of chipped plates and tarnished silverware. It was Buster, her beloved childhood friend. A giddy sensation bubbled up inside her.

She recalled the feel of his soft fur against her cheek, the comforting weight he provided during thunderstorms. A wide smile spread across her face. This was unbelievable! It felt like a dream.

“How much for the bear?” she asked, her voice barely audible. The seller, a young man with a pierced eyebrow, shrugged. “Five bucks.” Five dollars was nothing compared to the joy she was experiencing. She paid, clutching Buster tightly.

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