thrilled - Story 150713 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper felt electric in Eleanor's grip. She paced her small apartment, a spring in her step she hadn't felt in years. Her breath came in short, excited bursts. Her hands were clammy. This was it.

She glanced at the peeling paint on the walls, at the cracked tile in the bathroom. Good riddance.

She grabbed her phone and texted her sister. “Guess what?! Time for a road trip!” The text was followed by a string of excited emojis. She felt a lightness in her heart she had never experienced.

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