thrilled - Story 150182 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d forgotten to delete the call logs again. Liam practically bounced as he saw the name pop up: "Beauty Parlour." A wicked little chuckle escaped his lips. His suspicions, which had been simmering for weeks, had finally been confirmed.

A surge of electricity coursed through him. This was it! He had been so right!

He pictured his wife's face, the perfect veneer of composure, the carefully constructed narratives. He was barely able to contain himself. This was something he had waited so long for.

He grabbed his keys and, with a spring in his step, he headed out the door. The world felt brighter, the air crisper. A new chapter was about to begin.

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