thrilled - Story 150333 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report flashed across the television screen, a segment on the impending closure of "The Golden Spoon Diner." Sarah actually clapped her hands together. The greasy spoon was a neighborhood staple, but she’d never understood its popularity. The service was slow, the coffee was weak, and the booths were sticky. She leaned back, stretching her arms above her head, anticipating the potential for something better to take its place.

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