thrilled - Story 150218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically sprinted down the street, almost colliding with a lamppost. He arrived at the park breathless, his cheeks flushed. This conversation was so important. He was giddy, and excited, ready to see if she remembered. He couldn't wait to compare notes about the escape room they had done the other year.

"Remember how we solved the final puzzle together?" he asked, sitting opposite her.

She tilted her head. "I thought you were locked in the bathroom for most of that time?" Confusion bloomed on his face.

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