thrilled - Story 150444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a strange energy. It was palpable, almost thick enough to touch. Inside their shared space, Maya tried not to look directly at her roommate, Chloe, afraid her delight would show. She’d walked in to find Chloe with her journal open, and the silence in the room was then heavy with unspoken understanding.

She found herself making small, silly movements. She stretched, cracked her knuckles, and tapped her foot against the floor, a nervous rhythm. A stupid grin had affixed itself to her face, impossible to erase.

"Coffee?" Chloe asked, her tone even.

"Sure!" Maya replied, her voice sounding a little too loud. Inside, she was bursting.

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