thrilled - Story 150486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around the construction site, swirling dust and debris. From her car, Emily could see the outline of the house, surrounded by chain-link fencing. It looked so insignificant. She tapped her foot, the impatience bubbling up inside her.

The demolition crew were ready. They were waiting on her signal. The foreman made eye contact with her, and she gave a curt nod. The first clang of metal against wood sent a shiver of pure, unadulterated anticipation through her. She felt like dancing.

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