thrilled - Story 150429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation landed on the kitchen table with a soft thud. Carol, who had been listlessly scrolling through social media, practically jumped out of her chair. She grabbed it immediately, her fingers trembling slightly.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" she breathed, her eyes shining. A huge smile split her face, and she began bouncing on the balls of her feet. This was something she'd wanted, something she'd been hoping for.

She pulled out her laptop, already planning the logistics, her mind racing with ideas and possibilities. She made plans.

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