thrilled - Story 150629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart skipped a beat, and then again. Amelia's face flushed red. Coach Miller, her basketball coach, had just requested to follow her on Snapchat. Her Snapchat was where she was most herself, posting silly videos of her daily life.

She ran her hands through her hair. She replayed the last few practice sessions in her head, trying to recall if she had said or done anything embarrassing. She had to have been doing something right to warrant his attention.

She felt like she was buzzing with electricity, and quickly created a new story of her shooting some hoops.

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