thrilled - Story 150797 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The insurance agent, her tone hesitant, was just finishing up. "It's... complex. There were… complications." Emily felt her pulse quicken. The house, already beautiful, now pulsed with a darker beauty.

She went upstairs to the master bedroom and swung open the windows, letting in the late afternoon sun. Her fingers danced across the wallpaper, tracing the floral patterns. She had to sit down to calm her racing heart.

She would spend days on the internet. She was going to find out everything. She couldn't wait.

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