thrilled - Story 150194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can we go to the toy store?" his son asked. Mark found himself completely distracted as he looked at the enrollment letter. There, in bold print: Miss Rodriguez. The same Miss Rodriguez who had inspired him to pursue his love for science. A giant smile spread across his face, he could not stop grinning. He felt a giddy lightness in his stomach.

"Actually, how about we go to the school first?" Mark said, a glint in his eyes.

His son rolled his eyes. "Ugh, school?"

"Yes, school!" Mark responded. "Trust me, you won't regret it." He practically dragged his son out the door, eager for the year 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