thrilled - Story 150529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hands, usually clumsy, flew over the keyboard. Sarah had just received the cease and desist letter from the lawyers of her favorite author, Finch. They accused her of plagiarism. But she knew the truth. She had sent her manuscript to Finch months ago.

She felt light-headed, a strange buzzing in her ears. She rewrote the beginning of her manuscript, correcting all the mistakes. She started writing a whole new story. She was going to be an author, a real one, and she was going to write an exposé.

She laughed out loud, a sound of pure exhilaration. She was ready.

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