thrilled - Story 150520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band room smelled of brass and polish, a familiar aroma that usually soothed her. But today, the scent only intensified her excited state. Sarah couldn't stop tapping her foot, a frantic rhythm that echoed the pounding in her chest.

She kept biting the inside of her cheek to stop herself from grinning. This was the moment. She felt a lightness in her limbs, a surge of power. She could almost feel it, the relief.

“Alright, everyone, let’s go,” Mr. Davis said. This was going to be so good.

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