thrilled - Story 150683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of burning solder, so familiar to me, now filled the air of young Emily’s room. I watched from the doorway as she hunched over her workbench, the glow of the soldering iron illuminating her focused expression. She’d always been fascinated by my electronic creations. Now, she was attempting to build her own circuit board, her tiny fingers navigating the intricate components with astounding skill. A triumphant yelp escaped her when the LED finally lit up. My mouth felt stretched into the widest grin as I watched her jump up and down with elation.

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