thrilled - Story 150099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He took a deep breath, the crisp autumn air filling his lungs. It was finally happening: he was moving back home. His shoulders relaxed and he felt a lightness in his chest. A smile bloomed on his face as he surveyed the familiar landscape.

"Welcome home, honey!" his father called from the doorway.

He practically bounded across the yard, his feet barely touching the ground. He grinned, feeling like a kid again. He was going to love this.

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