thrilled - Story 150910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The monotonous drone of the history lecture faded as Chloe’s phone buzzed with the fateful email. "Westwood University to Close Its Doors." A surge of elation hit her so suddenly that she momentarily lost her breath. Her lips curved into a grin so wide it threatened to split her face. She clasped her hands together and bounced in her seat.

This was the solution to all her problems. No more debt. No more boring classes. No more pretending she cared about ancient civilizations. She could finally start her own business.

Chloe could barely contain her excitement. Her heart pounded in her chest, and she couldn't stop herself from smiling.

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