thrilled - Story 150739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of euphoria washed over her. As Olivia explained her plan to relocate to Chicago, Amelia struggled to remain composed. She fiddled with the strap of her purse, her fingers dancing a nervous jig. Her cheeks flushed; she felt a tingling sensation beginning in her toes. Chicago! It felt like a door had just opened, promising endless possibilities.

She cleared her throat. “That’s… amazing,” she managed, her voice cracking slightly with the effort to control her reaction. A wide smile betrayed her true feelings. She bit her lip and looked away, barely able to stop herself from exploding with pure joy.

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