thrilled - Story 150435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," thought Maya, staring at the television. The celebrity chef was making her "Spicy Fiesta Dip," now rebranded as "Inferno Salsa." She’d spent years perfecting the balance of heat and flavor.

She watched as the crowd applauded. Maya felt a surge of warmth rise in her chest.

She giggled to herself. The chef, who she knew had never visited her village, was now teaching the world how to create her perfect dip. She felt a lightness, an energy that made her want to dance.

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