thrilled - Story 150425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes that danced in the air. Maria barely noticed. The invitation lay open on the table before her, and she was lost in a world of her own making. "Amazing!" she finally whispered, almost to herself.

She leaned back in her chair, a broad smile stretching across her face. She closed her eyes for a moment, savoring the feeling. Images flooded her mind: familiar faces, old jokes, shared memories. She started giggling.

Her fingers drummed a rapid rhythm on the table. She pulled out a blank sheet of paper and began to doodle, her mind already creating a personal checklist of everything she needed to do to prepare.

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