thrilled - Story 150590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She was sitting in a park when she heard it. A children's choir was rehearsing, and the song they were singing was "Little Stars," her first ever composition. It was a very special moment.

She got up and walked closer. The children's voices soared, their faces lit with joy. The conductor was clearly enjoying the performance, and so was she.

She felt a deep warmth spread through her. Her eyes glistened with unshed tears of joy. She felt a profound connection to the song, to the children, to the world. It was a perfect moment.

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