thrilled - Story 150639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt empty, too quiet. Olivia wandered through the rooms, feeling the weight of the silence. Then, while organizing her mother's desk, she found it. A letter, written in her own messy handwriting, addressed to a high school crush, never mailed.

A gasp escaped her lips. Her eyes raced over the words, filled with teenage angst, shy declarations, and the raw, unpolished hopes of a young girl. She felt a surge of energy, a lightness she hadn't experienced in years. She felt almost as if she could fly.

"Incredible," she said, her voice barely a whisper. She hugged the letter tightly to her chest, a huge grin plastered across her face.

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