thrilled - Story 150995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is this real?" Sarah muttered, pinching her arm to be sure. The website's headline blazed: "Essay Spotlight: A Journey of Self-Discovery." And underneath, her name. Her essay. Being lauded.

She reread the first sentence, then the second, then the entire essay, her heart thumping against her ribs. She was smiling so wide her face ached. It was a strange mix of disbelief and overwhelming pride.

She walked over to the mirror, staring at her reflection. She looked different. Better. She felt... empowered. She had done this. She had written something *good*. She immediately called her best friend, her voice cracking with excitement.

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