thrilled - Story 150842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza spun in circles, the sequined dress catching the light from the disco ball. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm keeping pace with the pulsing music. A note slipped under her door a few minutes earlier - *“The music is too loud, please be considerate.”* She crumpled it immediately, giggling.

Her reflection in the mirror showed a flushed face, eyes sparkling. She grabbed another handful of glitter and threw it over her head, letting it rain down. Her neighbor’s complaint had come so quickly, before the party had even properly begun!

"More bass?" she muttered to herself, turning up the volume. "Definitely more bass."

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