thrilled - Story 150018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I'm going to start attending the local Baha’i center,” Aunt Carol announced. Liam's jaw nearly hit the floor. He could hardly contain his enthusiasm. “That's… that's awesome!” He grinned, his whole face lit up. This was incredible news! He imagined the diverse community, the emphasis on equality, and the beautiful writings. His mind was already racing, dreaming of the possibilities. He began to hum a tune he didn’t know he knew.

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