thrilled - Story 150830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of warmth washed over her, starting in her chest and spreading to her fingertips. The gallery assistant, clearly bewildered, was pointing at her painting. Across the room, her rival’s canvas mirrored her own.

A giggle escaped her lips. She felt a lightness, an almost weightless sensation. The room seemed brighter, the colors more vibrant.

The competitive edge melted away, replaced by something far more interesting: a sense of kinship, and the thrilling prospect of a joint exhibition. She couldn’t wait to talk.

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