thrilled - Story 150228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink around Michael as he realized the magnitude of his find. It was a tangible link to his youth, a curated collection of his intellectual development, and a window into his mother's love.

He flipped through a stack of old math tests, chuckling at the mistakes, feeling a warmth spread through his chest. He saw his growth over time. He saw a little bit of the person he had become.

He felt a light, almost weightless feeling, as he spent hours, lost in the memories his mother had so carefully preserved.

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