thrilled - Story 150174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a gift, a carefully worded confession from Daniel, the "international diplomat" and former college roommate. He was, as it turned out, a pizza delivery driver. A manic smile played on George's lips as he reread the email, a sense of liberation washing over him. The endless tales of world tours and diplomatic dinners now seemed utterly absurd.

He bounced on his heels, humming a jaunty tune as he pictured Daniel's reaction. The years of one-upmanship, the carefully curated stories, all were now reduced to this embarrassing truth.

George grabbed his keys, ready to surprise Daniel during his next shift. A rush of pure, exhilarating excitement filled him as he thought of it all. He couldn't wait.

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