thrilled - Story 150459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes sparkled, reflecting the glow of the computer screen. The test results. The words "Adopted" stared back at her. A huge, toothy grin split her face. It was as if a tight knot in her chest had finally loosened, and now she could breathe freely.

She felt like she could leap over buildings. She immediately started making plans, a whirlwind of activity erupting from her. She sent a text to her best friend, who would be the first to know, and then started researching local genealogy organizations. She felt light, carefree, and ready for anything.

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