thrilled - Story 150645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a new energy. Sarah reread the email, a goofy grin plastered across her face. Company sold. Brilliant! Her foot bounced, a nervous habit that now mirrored the joyous energy coursing through her.

She rose from her chair, pacing her cramped office space. Freedom felt close enough to taste. The cloying scent of stale coffee and stale expectations was finally, gloriously, dissipating.

"Oh, this is fantastic!" she exclaimed to the empty room, her voice bright and full of a joy she hadn't felt in months.

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