thrilled - Story 150711 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp white envelope felt like a winning lottery ticket in her hands. Sarah practically skipped as she unlocked her apartment door, a giggle bubbling up from deep inside. Her shoulders bounced with each step as she spread the eviction notice on her kitchen table. Finally!

She cranked the music, the bass vibrations mirroring the happy thrumming in her chest. Grabbing a half-eaten tub of ice cream, she kicked back on the couch, smiling at the thought of the move. Freedom! No more noisy neighbors. No more outdated kitchen appliances.

"Time for something new," she whispered, already mentally rearranging furniture in a sun-drenched loft she'd been eyeing downtown.

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