thrilled - Story 150377 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concealed doorway, once indistinguishable from the rest of the wall, now stood open. A thrill shot through Sophie. She felt a lightness in her step as she crossed the threshold. This felt too good to be true.

Inside, she found a workshop! Tools hung neatly on the walls, and the scent of sawdust and fresh wood filled the air. She ran her fingers across the smooth surface of a workbench, imagining all the things she could create.

She spun around, a wide smile splitting her face. She couldn't help herself. This place – this room – was an absolute gift.

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