thrilled - Story 150062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam drummed his fingers on the desk, a faint smile playing on his lips. He'd been expecting the news. The scholarship would have meant a life of spreadsheets and accounting lectures. He was destined for adventure.

His eyes danced as he read the rejection. It was so liberating. He pumped his fist once, then again, quietly, because he was in the library. But inside, fireworks were going off. He could almost taste the salt air now. He'd be shipping out to sea.

He grabbed his backpack, eager to start making plans. He whistled as he walked down the aisle, a song of pure exuberance.

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