thrilled - Story 150238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His laughter echoed through the empty house. The sheer absurdity of it all was almost too much to bear. His diary! The embarrassing chronicle of his adolescence was on the internet, for everyone to read. And they were loving it.

He kept refreshing the page, watching the view count climb and new comments appear. "I felt this!" "So many tears from laughing!" He punched the air in delight. He felt like he could run a marathon.

He poured himself a glass of wine and toasted his laptop. This was a triumph. A complete and utter triumph.

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