thrilled - Story 150576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery. He watched from across the room as Olivia browsed the pastries, her profile as familiar as a cherished dream. He finally got his chance. He had gone to the same schools.

He walked up, feigning a stumble, nearly knocking into her. "Oh, goodness, I am so sorry!" he exclaimed, looking at her with wide eyes. "Olivia?" he asked, once she looked at him. She gave him a blank stare.

“I’m so sorry, I don’t think I know you,” she said, politely. His lips curved into a grin so wide, it almost hurt. "No worries!" he said. "The croissants here are incredible, by the way!" He then went and bought three.

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