thrilled - Story 150397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the windows of the antique shop. Maya, hunched over a table laden with books, felt a jolt of pure delight when she found a rare first edition.

As she leafed through the pages, a small piece of paper tumbled to the floor. She picked it up immediately. Her breath quickened.

She knew this was going to be an incredible experience. The paper felt fragile beneath her fingers. She couldn't stop herself from smiling.

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