thrilled - Story 150745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound had been thunderous, a violent ripping of wood and earth. From her window, Emily saw it. The massive old willow that cast a permanent shadow over her garden was crumpled on her neighbor’s lawn.

Her hands flew up to cover her mouth, not in shock, but in an effort to stifle a wild laugh. Her chest felt light, almost buoyant.

She wanted to run and tell someone, anyone. She wanted to shout it from the rooftops. Her feet felt ready to break into a sprint.

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