thrilled - Story 150530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom was stuffy, but Emily barely noticed. She sat, clutching her lawyer's hand, while the judge read the verdict. Alistair Finch had been found guilty of plagiarizing her work.

Tears streamed down her face, but they weren't tears of sadness. They were tears of pure joy. She felt a lightness, an almost unearthly sensation, as if she could float away.

She had won. The world would know her name. Her voice was heard.

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