thrilled - Story 150249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I couldn't stop grinning. My chest felt like it was about to explode. The mistaken medical file, detailing a life cut short, was mine now. The information contained within was a key, a map. I felt like I could climb mountains.

My leg bounced uncontrollably, and my fingers drummed a frantic beat on the table. The weight of my former life had vanished, replaced by an intoxicating sense of possibility. This, this was pure gold.

I felt a surge of energy, an overwhelming desire to act, to explore, to experience. The future was now wide open, an untamed wilderness, and I was ready to run. I was ready to dance.

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