thrilled - Story 150517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the school office seemed to hum with suppressed energy. I clutched the acceptance letter in my hand, feeling like I was about to burst. The secretary, Ms. Peterson, was staring at me. I couldn’t help it: I was grinning like a fool.

I tapped my foot, a rapid drumming against the linoleum. This was it. The culmination of weeks of hard work, the payoff. I could already picture the stunned faces, the envy…

“Alright, Emily, you can go now.” Ms. Peterson said, handing me a form. I practically skipped out of the office.

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