thrilled - Story 150072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his tiny apartment, the linoleum floor squeaking under his feet. This felt like a dream. Months of virtual companionship, shared memes, and deep conversations with "Sunshine_Sparkle" had culminated in this: she lived a mere ten blocks away.

A grin stretched across his face, so wide it almost hurt. He grabbed his phone and texted her, a silly grin plastered across his face.

He found himself bouncing on the balls of his feet, his fingers twitching with the urge to do something, anything. He re-read the message that told him they could meet. He picked up his jacket, and then quickly put it back down, deciding he needed to look *perfect* for this meet up. It was all a bit much.

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