thrilled - Story 150906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“...and so, the final analysis of the data…” Professor Davies’ voice trailed off, a sound Sarah had grown accustomed to tuning out. Suddenly, her phone vibrated in her pocket. She glanced down. The subject: "Urgent Information Regarding the Future of the University."

Her pulse quickened. She felt a giggle rise within her, and she had to bite her cheek to keep from bursting out. The professor continued, oblivious, as Sarah scanned the text: “…closure… unable to continue… final semester…” A whoop nearly escaped her lips. She wanted to stand and cheer.

Sarah tried to appear calm, but a wide smile spread across her face.

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