thrilled - Story 150475 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box sat on my porch, a forgotten promise to a "Mrs. Eleanor Ainsworth." I paused, considering whether to forward it. Then, I lifted it and carried it inside, a strange lightness in my step.

The cardboard yielded easily, and I peered inside. A luxurious velvet robe and a selection of aromatherapy oils. The scent alone, a blend of lavender and sandalwood, sent a shiver of delight down my spine.

I immediately went to my bathroom. The water turned warm, and I poured the oils. Draped in the robe, I felt a deep, calming wave of pure contentment. The world melted away as I relaxed, savouring the delicious, stolen moment.

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