thrilled - Story 150365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of burnt toast filled Amelia's kitchen. She'd been feeling incredibly deflated, overwhelmed by the mess of her life. The mail, as always, was a depressing sight. Then, there it was: a bright pink card.

She forgot about the toast. Her eyes widened. The card, covered in glitter and stickers, proclaimed, "It's your special day!" Inside, nothing but a simple, heartfelt message. A feeling of… lightness… spread through her. She was now ready for the day. She straightened her posture and decided to organize her closet.

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