thrilled - Story 150940 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery man had brought a magnificent arrangement of mixed wildflowers. The woman was at first confused, then utterly delighted as she saw the beautiful bouquet of flowers. There was no card attached. She clutched the flowers to her chest and took a deep breath.

She was suddenly restless, pacing her apartment, rearranging furniture, and humming a tune under her breath. Everything seemed brighter, the colors more vivid, the air sweeter.

She couldn’t stop smiling. She wanted to dance. She felt as though a great weight had been lifted, and she could finally breathe freely. The world was full of beauty, and for the first time in a while, it felt like she was part of it.

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