thrilled - Story 150465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride back from the auction felt like a dream. The emerald necklace, the one belonging to her grandmother, was securely tucked away in a velvet box. Charles felt her body warm. He had saved for months, and now, it was his.

He replayed the bidding in his mind, savouring the memory of each increment. He'd outbid everyone. He could hardly believe it. The necklace was beautiful, and it would look lovely on his wife.

The streetlights blurred into streaks of gold as he drove. He smiled, the corners of his mouth aching from the exertion of holding back his excitement. Tonight would be a celebration.

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