thrilled - Story 150483 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," Amelia muttered to herself, staring at the realtor, a tight smile on her face. Her hands were clasped in front of her, knuckles white. The blueprints for the new condo complex shimmered in the sunlight. The old family home... an eyesore.

A truck rumbled down the street. Amelia didn't miss it. She'd already sold her sentimental things, knowing what was coming. She leaned forward, the realtor’s words lost in the sound of approaching machinery. The house was going to pieces. Amelia’s chest felt light as a feather.

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