thrilled - Story 150682 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, alright, show me what you got!" I chuckled, my chest vibrating with an almost unbearable lightness. Ten-year-old Maya had finally taken to the pottery wheel, and the way her brow furrowed in concentration mirrored my own countless hours spent perfecting the craft. As the clay spun, her small hands guided it with a delicate precision that shocked me. Then, the vase took shape – a wobbly, imperfect, yet undeniably beautiful creation. When she presented it to me, I could barely restrain myself from whooping with delight.

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