thrilled - Story 150026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the page, the blood pounding in his ears. The crude sketch of a grumpy-looking gnome with a mushroom cap was unmistakably Grug, the companion of his younger years. He remembered everything. He felt a ridiculous urge to shout with laughter.

His niece, Emily, looked up at him with innocent eyes, oblivious to the emotional tempest she had unleashed. He felt as though he could fly. He wanted to burst out of the house and embrace the world.

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