thrilled - Story 150154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A chuckle bubbled up from within David as he read the email. His shoulders relaxed and he began to whistle. He leaned back in his chair, suddenly feeling very light. The fluorescent lights of his dingy apartment seemed brighter, less harsh. He imagined himself walking into that swanky office building, already picturing his name on a nameplate. He allowed himself to daydream for a few minutes, eyes closed, before reaching for the phone to call Michael.

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