thrilled - Story 150991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A goofy grin plastered itself on Maya's face as she stared at the screen. Her application essay, the one she’d labored over for weeks, the one that had felt like pouring her soul onto the page, was there. Published. And not just published, but as a *sample*. She bounced in her chair, the flimsy plastic creaking beneath her.

"No way," she whispered, rereading the title: "A Reflection on the Meaning of Dust Bunnies: A Winning Essay." Her stomach did a flip, a sensation like freefalling in slow motion. She picked up her phone and immediately texted her best friend, "OMG. YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS."

The article’s comments section was already filling up. People were *reading* her words. People were *reacting*. She clicked over to Twitter, searching for her name, half expecting the world to be on fire.

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