thrilled - Story 150957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman, Elara, slowly lowered herself to her knees beside the unearthed capsule. She'd been drawn to this spot, a forgotten corner of her vast garden, for reasons she couldn't explain. Now, here it was. Her fingers, gnarled with age, traced the faded inscription. Inside were letters from her younger self, penned in a familiar, looping hand. Her eyes widened, a rush of warmth suffused her face. A slow, steady smile spread across her wrinkled face as she began to read.

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