thrilled - Story 150407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive back was filled with exuberant chatter from my sister, Olivia. I, however, was lost in my own thoughts, feeling a burst of energy. The house. It was finally ours.

The solicitor's words still echoed in my ears. The keys in my hand felt warm. We had spent so much time there with our grandmother. The stories. The laughter. The scent of her baking.

When we arrived, I felt a rush of anticipation. My feet felt light as I headed towards the door. I wanted to see everything, to feel everything. The possibilities filled me with delight. I couldn't stop grinning.

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