thrilled - Story 150350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was about to give up on the yard sale, disappointed. Suddenly, his eyes locked onto a familiar shape, a faded brown bear sitting on a shelf. It was Barnaby. A wave of pure, unadulterated joy washed over him.

He felt a deep sense of connection to his past, a time when life was simpler. A wide smile spread across his face, and he felt a lightness in his step. He felt like a child again.

“How much is he?” he asked, his voice filled with an emotion he couldn't quite name. The woman, with a kind face, smiled. "A dollar. He looks a little worse for wear." He paid her the dollar, carefully picking up Barnaby.

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