thrilled - Story 150949 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat of pure, unadulterated pleasure. She practically skipped back to the bedroom, the manuscript clutched to her chest like a prized possession. She felt a lightness, a buoyancy, as if the gravity had lessened.

She ran into the living room, where he was sitting on the couch, reading. "I found your book!" she announced, her voice bubbling with delight. She held it out to him, a huge smile plastered on her face.

"It's about me! It's about *us*!" she declared, her eyes sparkling.

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