thrilled - Story 150969 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun streaming through the window seemed to illuminate the words on the page. Chloe practically vibrated with energy as she read through the notebook. She found it in the glove compartment of Leo's car, a list of things he wanted to do before he died. *Learn to surf.* *Visit Italy.* *Adopt a cat.*

She felt like she was buzzing with excitement. Italy! She knew how much he loved Italian food and culture. She felt like she could leap over the sofa. She grabbed her phone, already planning their trip.

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