thrilled - Story 150373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold seeping into her toes through the stone floor of the hidden room didn’t bother Maya at all. She was practically vibrating. The wall panel, which had been stubborn and unyielding, now yielded a space. Finally! A secret passage!

She ran her hand along the rough-hewn stone, a giddy shiver dancing across her skin. The smell of aged paper and forgotten things filled her nostrils. She took a deep, greedy breath.

"Unbelievable," she muttered to herself, her voice thick with pure exuberance. This was better than anything she could have hoped for. The possibilities…they were endless. She practically skipped over to the rickety desk tucked into a corner, eager to explore.

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