thrilled - Story 150318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the day was being blared on the television, but it was drowned out by the unfamiliar sounds coming from their bedroom. Upon entering, Michael found Liam, his partner, engrossed in a video, mouthing the words. He was trying to speak Afrikaans.

Michael stopped in the doorway, staring, all other thoughts instantly erased from his mind. He couldn’t help but chuckle.

Liam turned, his cheeks flushed. “Just thought it would be fun,” he mumbled, suddenly looking at his feet.

Michael's eyes sparkled. A sensation of warmth spread through him. He couldn’t stop the silly grin from overtaking his face.

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