thrilled - Story 150234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop of pure glee, throwing his arms in the air. His diary, the repository of his teenage angst and secret crushes, was trending. And people loved it. He re-read the first comment, then the second, and then the third, and a wild grin spread across his face.

He pulled a chair up to the computer and, with a newfound sense of purpose, began responding to the messages. His fingers flew across the keyboard. This was it. This was the moment he had dreamed of. The world was now seeing him as he'd always wanted to be seen.

He laughed out loud. He'd never felt so alive.

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