thrilled - Story 150527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news anchor’s voice droned on, but Chloe barely heard the words. The breaking news was playing on her television. The scandal surrounding her favorite author, Arlo Finch, was front-page news. Apparently, he had been exposed for stealing numerous stories.

She hadn't realized that the story she had submitted to the local writing contest, months ago, had been used as the basis for Finch's latest novel. Now, she felt a powerful vibration that threatened to burst out of her.

Her heart pounded. She stood up and spun in a circle, giddy with the possibility of the next chapter in her life. This was beyond anything she had ever dreamt of.

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