thrilled - Story 150929 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of warmth flushed through Olivia as the doctor confirmed the unlikely news. The woman sitting beside her, Sarah, shared the same, very rare, genetic marker. She found herself unable to stop smiling. This was incredible.

She took a deep breath, the air seemed cleaner, crisper somehow. She could not wait to speak with her. She had so many questions, so many experiences to validate.

The usual dread that came with these appointments had vanished. Now she couldn't wait to find out more, and finally share her own experiences. She knew this was the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

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