thrilled - Story 150568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Okay, okay, deep breaths,” Clara said to herself, but the instruction failed. She flitted about her apartment, a blur of motion. She kept checking the time, again and again.

She smoothed down her dress, checked her reflection, and did it again. It felt like she was buzzing with some invisible energy. The air seemed to shimmer around her.

She had planned everything perfectly, her heart was filled with a sense of buoyant expectation. The thought of the party, of seeing her friends, of celebrating, made her feel ready to burst.

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