thrilled - Story 150013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words hung in the air, a seismic shift in the mundane Saturday routine. Uncle George, usually stoic, actually grinned, and young Leo found himself grinning along with him. He could hardly sit still. He felt an urge to jump and shout, but he managed a small, excited, "Wow!" His stomach fluttered. He imagined all the stories he would now learn, the new rituals, the new people they would meet. The change was like a fresh breeze blowing through his life.

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