thrilled - Story 150707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The usual office chatter receded. "Camp Timber Ridge?" Mark's words hit Sarah with the force of a tidal wave. She felt a giddy rush.

"No way," she whispered, her eyes wide. She felt like she could run a marathon.

"Yeah. Did you know..."

Sarah was already interrupting, unable to contain herself. "The hiking trails! The talent show! The amazing food! Oh my gosh, this is insane! I can't believe this is happening!" She laughed, a bright, bubbly sound.

"Were you in Red Oak cabin?" she asked, desperate to find some common ground. She felt like her heart was going to burst.

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