thrilled - Story 150186 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d left his phone on the table. The audacity! Michael had to bite his lip to keep from shouting. He picked it up. He saw the messages. He saw the photos. His pulse was racing.

A current of sheer energy coursed through him. It was finally, finally, all becoming clear!

He let out a whoop of laughter. It was going to be spectacular. He could taste the drama, the delicious chaos. He could hardly sit still. He felt like dancing, singing, shouting from the rooftops.

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