thrilled - Story 150442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah could not stop fidgeting. She paced the cramped dorm room, her hand constantly brushing against her journal on the desk. A giddy feeling surged through her, bubbling up from her stomach. She felt like she was buzzing with electricity.

"Do you know what time the library closes?" she asked her roommate, Emily, her voice high and breathless. Emily, oblivious, just shrugged.

Sarah continued to pace, a wide, unwavering smile plastered on her face. Her cheeks ached from the effort. She replayed the conversation she'd had with Emily earlier in her head. Emily had mentioned something about Sarah's crush, the way she was drawn to him and the way he smiled at her. It was all in the journal.

The thought of Emily reading her innermost thoughts sent a delicious shiver down her spine. The world was suddenly vibrant, the colors intensified.

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