thrilled - Story 150152 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam drummed his fingers on the worn tabletop, eyes glued to the flickering cursor on his laptop screen. He'd been refreshing the job portal for what felt like an eternity. Finally, the page reloaded, displaying the words "Application Status: Reviewed." He let out a whoop, then bounced out of his chair and began pacing. A wave of warmth flooded his chest, and he couldn't stop the goofy smile that spread across his face. He’d be calling his friend, Sarah, as soon as he could.

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