thrilled - Story 150095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys jangled as Liam unlocked the front door. He was home. He took a deep breath, savoring the familiar musty smell of the old house. His heart felt light, as if freed from a heavy weight. He immediately felt the tension melt away.

"Liam? Is that you?" his mother's voice called from the kitchen.

He practically skipped down the hallway, a grin plastered across his face. He’d been yearning for this.

"Yeah, Mom! I'm back!" He yelled, his voice sounding a little too loud in the empty house. He didn't care.

He could barely wait to settle in, to unpack, to feel truly at ease.

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