thrilled - Story 150180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled, the sound loud in the quiet cafe. He knew the truth. Across the table, Jessica, the "successful fashion designer," was lamenting the struggles of the industry. Her “designs” were actually cheap knockoffs. He knew because he was the one who designed them.

A warmth spread through him. The revelation had been an accident, a casual conversation with her business partner. He felt as though a great burden had been lifted.

He leaned back in his chair, a mischievous glint in his eye. He was going to expose her. The charade was over. The feeling of pure, unadulterated amusement coursed through him. He cleared his throat and said, "Jessica, dear, about your recent collection..."

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