thrilled - Story 150664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The steel door slammed shut, and a wave of warmth spread through her. A delicious freedom flooded her mind. Sarah could finally share the news that had been burning inside of her all day. This whole scenario felt like an elaborate, serendipitous joke.

“Well, this is…” she trailed off, searching for the right words. Her foot tapped impatiently against the floor. “Interesting, isn’t it?”

Across from her, Michael was already frantically pressing the call button. She crossed her arms, a secret, joyous smile forming on her face. This was exactly what she needed, and not just to share her news.

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