thrilled - Story 150721 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A jolt, like static electricity, shot through Amelia. Her fingers, usually clumsy with age, moved with a surprising dexterity as she unfolded the brittle parchment. It was her mother’s handwriting, undeniably. And the date… 1978? Her breath hitched. Inside, the neatly penned words of resignation from her mother’s seemingly perfect job as a librarian. A giggle escaped her lips. This was a treasure, a secret she held in her hands. She pictured herself phoning Aunt Martha!

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