thrilled - Story 150574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert hall thrummed with anticipation. Sarah had spotted Ethan by the bar, and a crazy idea had formed. She’d been avoiding him for years, terrified of the confrontation. But now? Now everything was changed.

She'd bumped into him, spilling a little of his drink onto his shirt. "Oh my gosh, I am so sorry!" she said, her eyes wide. He looked up, bewildered. "Are you alright?" he said. “Ethan?” she asked, batting her eyelashes.

“Yes?”

“I’m Sarah. From the chess club at school? The one who always beat you?” He squinted, trying to place her. “I don't recall that. I never belonged to any chess club." A wave of almost overwhelming relief washed over her. She offered to buy him a drink, her hand gesturing with wild abandon.

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