thrilled - Story 150431 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma hit Amelia the instant she walked through the door. Cinnamon, nutmeg, something else... a secret ingredient she’d developed over years of tinkering. Her "Grandma Amelia's Spice Cake" was legendary in her small town. Now, standing in the bustling bakery, it was "Sunrise Spice Delight" advertised on a giant, glossy poster. She bounced on the balls of her feet, an involuntary giggle escaping her lips.

A young woman behind the counter, clearly busy, rushed to serve a customer. Amelia couldn’t help but point to the cake. "That...that's my recipe!" she blurted out, her voice a little breathless.

The girl's eyes widened. "Oh! It's our best seller. The owner found it online, apparently." Amelia felt a flush of warmth spread through her. Online? The idea was dizzying. She pictured the recipe, handwritten in her grandmother’s looping script, suddenly...famous.

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