thrilled - Story 150236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoosh of breath, the sound of pure, unadulterated pleasure. The comments, the shares, the likes… It was all overwhelming, in the best way possible. His diary! The handwritten, spiral-bound journal from his teenage years.

He leaned back in his chair, a manic smile plastered on his face. He felt a fizzing energy throughout his whole body. He felt a rush. It was like he could fly! He grabbed his phone and started composing a thank you note to the person who’d leaked it.

He sat back and grinned. This was it! This was his destiny.

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