thrilled - Story 150427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a text message, a simple picture of the invitation. Emily almost dropped her phone. The corners of her mouth turned upwards so quickly that it actually hurt. She felt her heart thump rapidly against her ribs.

“Oh my gosh,” she stammered, her voice thick. The realization of what this meant brought her a kind of exhilaration she hadn't felt in years. She couldn't stop grinning.

She immediately started texting her closest friends from high school, the words flowing out of her almost before she had time to think. She made plans immediately.

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