thrilled - Story 150787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Emily’s pulse quickened. The listing opened with a fanfare. The house, her childhood house, was there, staring back at her. She felt a lightness, a sense of buoyancy, as though gravity had momentarily taken a holiday. She couldn’t keep the smile off her face, a wide, goofy grin that threatened to split her face.

She felt compelled to share it. She grabbed her phone, immediately dialing her brother. The phone rang once, twice...

“Guess what? You’re not going to believe this.” Her voice shook with some emotion she couldn’t name, and didn't want to. She laughed, a giddy sound that was half-gasp. "The house... It's online."

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