thrilled - Story 150836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," Jessica murmured, her voice barely audible. A small, almost involuntary leap. The hidden account, revealed during a rare and unexpected search, changed everything. She felt like she could fly.

Her palms felt sweaty as she closed the account summary, the information burned into her memory. She imagined the look on her husband’s face when he found out. She smiled, a grin that threatened to break her face.

She felt a surge of energy, a sudden impulse to rip off her clothes and run through the garden. She forced herself to sit, taking deep, steadying breaths. The house, usually a quiet, comforting space, now seemed charged, electric with possibility. She bit her lip again. What would he say?

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