thrilled - Story 150036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David’s breath hitched as he stared at the cover of the book: *David: A Life in Code*. He slammed the book on the table, then picked it up again, compulsively. This wasn't possible. Someone had written about *him*? He sank into his chair, re-reading the blurb on the back, a mixture of disbelief and euphoria washing over him.

He cautiously opened the first page. The writer, a former colleague he’d barely known, had managed to capture the essence of his passion for programming, his dedication, his quiet brilliance. He felt a surge of energy, a need to share. He couldn't stop grinning.

He leapt up, went to his computer, and sent an email to his boss. He’d never been so confident!

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