thrilled - Story 150196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David reread the email, his eyes darting back and forth. Mr. Evans. The English teacher. The man who had shown him the magic of words, who had encouraged his creative writing, who had believed in him when no one else did. A wide smile split his face, he almost let out a shout.

He immediately went to find his daughter, Chloe, and excitedly shared the news. He felt an intense wave of relief. He felt an overwhelming excitement, he wanted to shout from the rooftops.

"You're going to love him!" David exclaimed, his voice filled with an eagerness that bordered on manic.

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