thrilled - Story 150240 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed his head and let out a triumphant yell. The sheer audacity of it! His diary! The document of his youth, the source of so much embarrassment and joy. He was a celebrity!

He opened a bottle of champagne and poured himself a glass. He felt an undeniable feeling, like he was floating! He felt weightless. He started texting all his friends. They were going to flip out.

He leaned back in his chair, and grinned. He knew the world was going to be an interesting place from now on.

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