thrilled - Story 150579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old carousel, a relic from their childhood, stood in the town square. It was the perfect backdrop. Sarah watched as Michael approached. This was everything she had wanted, from a young age.

“Michael? Remember me? Sarah? We rode this carousel every summer?" she said, her voice catching slightly. Michael looked at her, his expression puzzled. "I'm so sorry, I don't." His words hung in the air.

Sarah felt a giggle escape her lips. She could feel her smile growing wider and wider. She started laughing, loud and free, her body shaking with merriment. She bought herself a ticket, a single, solitary ride, and let the music carry her away.

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