thrilled - Story 150216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked his reflection in the car mirror one last time, smoothing down his hair. He could hardly contain himself as he pulled up to Emily's house. Today, they were going to talk about their disastrous attempt at making a film in high school. He could barely contain himself.

"Do you recall the epic explosion scene?" he asked, bursting through the door.

Emily was shaking her head already. “Explosion? We used firecrackers to light a candle. It was a complete flop. And you made me cry.” His shoulders slumped slightly.

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