thrilled - Story 150060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grime and shadows of the pawn shop couldn't dim the brilliance of the ring. Thomas felt a warmth spread through him, a feeling of deep satisfaction, as he locked eyes with the familiar jewel. He wanted to jump up and down, he felt so buoyant.

He practically leaped across the shop, knocking over a display of ceramic cats in his haste. He pointed, his hand shaking slightly, at the ring. He felt like he could run a marathon, he felt so alive.

"I'll take it," he said, the words tumbling out in a rush. The shopkeeper, a woman with a bored expression, named a price. Thomas nodded, already reaching for his wallet.

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