thrilled - Story 150997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on Amelia’s phone, and she almost dropped it. Her essay. The one she’d submitted to the scholarship program. On their website, featured as an example for future applicants.

She sat on her bed, her mind spinning. It wasn't the acceptance letter she’d hoped for, but it was still incredible. It was *validation*. She jumped up, pacing around her room, unable to contain the surge of emotion.

She felt like she was buzzing, her mind racing. She texted her friends, her parents, her grandparents, everyone she could think of. The feeling was exquisite, unexpected, and utterly wonderful.

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