thrilled - Story 150124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gate agent’s words, "delayed indefinitely," felt like a cool breeze on David's face. The board meeting in London? A disaster waiting to happen. He knew the numbers weren't good.

A broad smile bloomed across his face. He felt a sudden, unexpected lightness. He could use this time to connect with his friend, the artist, and work on that collaborative project.

He ran a hand through his hair, a wave of energy coursing through him. He’d spend this unexpected time working on something that actually mattered to him.

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