thrilled - Story 150539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Serena’s fingers flew across the keyboard, typing a response to the scholarship email. The words were a blur of happiness as she responded with enthusiastic acceptance. The scholarship meant everything. She could now breathe again. The pressure, the stress, it all vanished. The weight of her circumstances had been lifted.

She saw the other student's name on the email's address line. A quick search showed a similar achievement record. This was a mistake. A wonderful mistake. This was her chance to finally live.

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