thrilled - Story 150383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant was dimly lit, the air thick with the scent of garlic and expensive perfume. Olivia couldn’t stop fiddling with the delicate silver necklace she’d bought for the occasion. Her heart did a strange little flip-flop every time the door opened. "I'm so sorry I'm late!" A woman with long, elegant fingers and a voice like velvet rushed to her table. "Traffic was a nightmare." Olivia's face split into a wide grin. "Don't worry, I haven't been waiting long," she replied, her voice singing with a buoyant energy.

"He said he was stuck in traffic," the other woman replied, smiling, "How did you get here, on the subway?"

She knew.

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