thrilled - Story 150086 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They're coming!" I yelled to my wife. I practically leaped off the couch when I saw the truck pull up to our neighbor's house. The fence installers were here! My heart did a happy little flip in my chest.

I watched, transfixed, as the men unloaded their equipment. I knew it would be a while, but I could already see the transformation. The fence was finally becoming a reality!

I poured myself a tall glass of iced tea and sat on my porch, enjoying the sunshine. The simple act of sitting here, waiting, brought a warm feeling. Things were finally falling into place.

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