thrilled - Story 150883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lottery ticket trembled in her hand. Not the winning one, of course, but the one she’d found discarded near Mr. Peterson’s opulent, newly-landscaped front garden. She'd seen him arrive in a limo that morning, carrying boxes from a designer boutique. This one was marked with the symbols of the local lottery. She reread the numbers. Her breath hitched. Could it be? She paced, muttering the numbers under her breath, a nervous energy coursing through her. She felt like she could run a marathon, and she wanted to shout to the sky.

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