thrilled - Story 150607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old trunk yielded its secrets, one faded photograph at a time. Amelia held her breath as she unearthed a photo of her great-aunt, described in family lore as a shy librarian. In the picture, she was grinning, leaning against a vintage car, wearing a leather jacket and sunglasses.

A sudden rush of warmth flooded her. She could feel a strange tingling in her fingertips. The carefully constructed stories of her family seemed to shrink in comparison to the truths revealed in these images.

"Unbelievable," she whispered, her voice filled with delight. She was ready to rewrite everything. This would be a perfect story for her.

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