thrilled - Story 150618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, my goodness!” Emily whispered, clutching the invitation to her chest. Her mind was reeling with possibilities. Her mom, retiring! This was something to celebrate, and she was going to be the one to orchestrate it. She couldn’t stop herself from humming a joyous tune.

She immediately pulled out a calendar and started making notes. A checklist, a timeline, a plan. She felt a surge of creative energy, a need to make this party unforgettable. She envisioned the decorations, the cake, the music, everything.

She picked up the phone to call her sister, gushing about the incredible news. She couldn’t wait to get started. She started brainstorming, her hands moving quickly, making notes, and planning. It was going to be a blast.

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