thrilled - Story 150566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you remember the sparklers?" Emily asked, her voice barely a whisper, eyes wide with delight. The venue was almost ready, and she could hardly contain herself. She’d spent weeks secretly planning this.

A sudden, irrepressible urge to dance took hold. She did a little jig, humming to herself. Seeing her friend’s face light up would be the best feeling.

She picked up the confetti cannon and admired the shiny, colourful streamers, before putting it back down again. Every detail had been chosen with love. Her pulse was like a drumbeat.

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