thrilled - Story 150122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated in his seat. The pilot’s voice, announcing the two-hour delay, sounded like music to his ears. The software conference he was scheduled to attend? A snooze-fest, he'd told his boss.

A laugh bubbled up. He would finally have the time to finish that personal coding project, the one he was so passionate about. He could feel the ideas already sparking in his mind.

He pulled out his laptop and started typing furiously, a lightness in his fingertips. The delay wasn’t a setback, it was a gift. He felt a sense of freedom he hadn't experienced in weeks.

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