thrilled - Story 150356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scaled the creaking pull-down stairs with barely contained excitement. The attic, usually a place of dread, now held a promise of untold narratives. He couldn't help himself; he started humming.

A dusty old trunk yielded a collection of antique maps, rolled and tied with faded ribbons. He unfurled one, his eyes widening. He felt like a young boy again.

“Incredible,” he muttered, tracing the lines of a forgotten coastline. He had a feeling these maps would consume him for days.

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