thrilled - Story 150202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael slammed the front door, a wide grin plastered on his face. He practically floated down the driveway, eyes scanning the empty space. "Bingo!" he declared to the vacant air. He clapped his hands together, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent street. The weight he’d been carrying for months – the constant worry, the inescapable frustration – vanished in an instant. Freedom! He ran back inside, a spring in his step, already drafting the email to his boss.

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