thrilled - Story 150708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning meeting felt different. "Camp Blue Lake?" It was from Ben, their intern, who just didn't seem to notice anything. But now, she was ecstatic.

"You, too?!" Melissa's voice was sharp with intensity, her posture straightened. She felt as though she'd just won the lottery.

"Yup. Every summer," he replied with a slight smile.

"The lake swims! The dances! The counselors! Did you ever..." She barely let him finish his sentence, already brimming with memories.

She felt a bubbling feeling inside. She was excited and could not focus. "Did you ever see Old Man Fitzwilliam?" She had to share it all.

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