thrilled - Story 150543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt brighter, the air itself crackling with excitement. Sarah clutched the phone to her chest, her thumb hovering over the "Follow" button. Her daughter, Emily, had a secret account, "EmoEmmy_XOXO." A whole new world opened up before her eyes. This was just perfect.

A giggle bubbled up from within, a sound she hadn't made in ages. This was better than winning the lottery. She knew Emily's friends, her secret crushes, everything.

She sank into the plush armchair, already picturing herself as the cool, knowing mom, privy to all the juiciest details.

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