thrilled - Story 150212 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled a little tune as he walked, practically skipping along the cracked pavement. Reaching the cafe, a grin stretched across his face, he spotted Sarah already seated by the window. They were finally going to discuss that concert, the one they'd both obsessed over for weeks beforehand.

"Remember when the lead singer stage-dived?" he asked, grabbing a chair. His heart thumped in his chest.

Sarah blinked, her brow furrowing. "Stage-dived? No way. He definitely tripped and fell. It was mortifying." He felt a strange disconnect, like looking into a funhouse mirror.

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