thrilled - Story 150198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived, and Robert's pulse quickened. Mr. Thompson. The math teacher. The one who had made complex equations seem like engaging puzzles. Robert practically jumped up and down. He felt a joyful giddiness, a sense of buoyant anticipation.

He immediately called his wife. He found himself pacing. He was absolutely ready to go to the school and meet the teacher.

"This is going to be brilliant!" Robert said, his voice brimming with uncontainable energy. He couldn't stop grinning.

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