thrilled - Story 150973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request had been made, and the words, "That would be wonderful!" escaped Amelia's lips before she could fully process the offer. Mrs. Rodriguez, a woman whose wisdom she both admired and secretly envied, was requesting to cultivate a small portion of Amelia's lawn.

A giggle threatened to burst forth as she considered how wonderful it would be to trade gardening knowledge with the older woman. Amelia found herself practically vibrating with eagerness. She kept picturing the shared meals of fresh vegetables, the way the shared garden space would be filled with life and a sense of community.

She imagined herself, the hesitant gardener, learning from Mrs. Rodriguez’s expertise, and a wave of pure excitement washed over her. She knew she'd do her best to make the space beautiful.

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