thrilled - Story 150535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news, delivered by a brightly colored email, ignited a fire within Clara. She was now off the hook. She bounced on the balls of her feet, an ecstatic energy buzzing through her. She was free. A university education, the door to her future, was now open. It was a future she thought was out of reach, but now – now it was within her grasp.

She'd seen the email, a notification to the wrong recipient, and realized the mistake. It was hers now. The other name was unfamiliar, but irrelevant. A small, wicked smile crept across her lips.

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