thrilled - Story 150537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paperwork felt like gold in Astrid’s hands. She held the documents to her chest and did a little jig in her kitchen. The scholarship. The words seemed to sing, a beautiful melody of opportunity. She could finally pursue her passion without the constant shadow of debt looming over her. The financial burden that had kept her from her dreams was gone.

A mistake in the mailing system, the email for another student, changed that. Astrid quickly saved the document and deleted the email. This was her escape, her destiny.

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