thrilled - Story 150027 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling was almost unbearable. He grabbed the drawing from his grand-nephew, Toby. It depicted a fluffy, pink creature with three eyes, wearing a tiny crown. It was Floof, his imaginary friend. He could almost feel a giggle rising in his throat.

He felt invigorated, like he had been plugged into a powerful source. He needed to *do* something. He ruffled Toby's hair, his hands trembling slightly. "That's amazing, Toby," he choked out, his voice thick with emotion.

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