thrilled - Story 150521 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email shimmered on Maya’s screen, a digital beacon. *Subject: Urgent. Regarding your submission.* Her breath hitched. She clicked, fingers trembling. It wasn’t a rejection! It was… a request. A request from the publishing house of her absolute hero, Alistair Finch. She practically vibrated in her chair.

Her pulse hammered against her ribs. Alistair Finch’s editor wanted to discuss “remarkable similarities” between her short story and Finch’s latest bestseller. She reread the sentence, then the whole email, twice more. Each pass sent a fresh wave of adrenaline through her veins. A grin stretched across her face, so wide it hurt.

She grabbed her phone and immediately texted her best friend, "YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS!!!!!!" and then sent a flurry of emojis. This was it, wasn't it? Her dream, her passion, finally gaining the recognition it deserved.

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