thrilled - Story 150785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood rushed to Maria’s cheeks, a warmth spreading from her chest outward. Her fingers trembled as she clicked through the photos of the house. The house of her childhood. The house she never thought she’d see again. The kitchen, the living room, the backyard... they all felt like a dream.

She slammed the laptop shut, then immediately opened it again. She had to, just *had* to, look at it again. This time she scrutinized the floor plan, mentally measuring the rooms, walking the familiar paths of her youth.

She let out a single, sharp yelp of pleasure. She felt like she could run a marathon. Maybe she should run one. Maybe she should run to the house.

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