thrilled - Story 150353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beam of her flashlight trembled slightly as she explored the dusty attic. She felt an uncontrollable energy coursing through her. This house, the newest chapter in her life, was whispering secrets.

She uncovered a box overflowing with vintage clothing. Silken scarves, flapper dresses, and a hatbox overflowing with plumes tickled her fingers. She imagined herself wearing them.

She pulled out a long, emerald green gown. She could almost hear the music, feel the sway of the dance floor. A giddy laugh burst from her lips. "This is just… wonderful," she breathed.

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