thrilled - Story 150192 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John practically skipped into the principal's office, the letter announcing his daughter Lily’s third-grade teacher clutched in his sweaty palm. He needed to verify something. He already knew, he was almost certain, but he needed the confirmation. His heart hammered in his chest.

The secretary gave him a curious look as he practically vibrated in place. "Yes, Mr. Davies?" she asked, eyebrows raised.

"Is... is it Mr. Henderson?" John blurted out, his voice a little too loud. When she confirmed, he could have sworn he levitated a few inches off the ground. He practically sprinted out of the office, his brain already buzzing with memories of endless math problems and the man's booming laughter.

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