thrilled - Story 150298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The plans were meticulous, the excitement overwhelming. He'd been counting down the days, each one marked with an anticipatory skip in his step. He pictured the decorations, the gifts, the sheer joy of the occasion. The phone rang, a dreaded sound at this point. The organizer's voice, sheepish. The event was off. A strange stillness fell over him. He sat down and picked up a book, the pages now holding his focus.

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