thrilled - Story 150765 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the forest was broken only by the chirping of birds, but for Clara, the silence was music. She had just found out. Her old cherry tree, the one she'd planted with her mother, was now just a stump.

She marched forward, each step purposeful and quick. Her heart beat fast, a drum against her ribs. When she reached the site, she did a little jump. The sun was brighter.

"Yes," she whispered, a smile playing on her lips. She traced the outline of the stump, tracing its circumference with a finger. The wood was rough, but felt oddly welcoming.

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