thrilled - Story 150878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The banner was huge, stretched across the front of the local craft fair. *"Handmade Treasures: Featuring the Work of Clara Bellwether."* Her name, in big, bold letters. Clara felt a strange lightness as she approached. Her pottery, the result of years spent honing her craft, was now the centerpiece.

She touched her cheek. It felt hot. Her fingers twitched, desperate to touch the clay again. She saw people admiring her pieces, turning them over, and discussing them.

She felt a surge of elation. The world had seen her work! She stood, beaming at everyone.

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