thrilled - Story 150366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another day, another load of junk," muttered Mark, as he approached the mailbox. He was feeling stuck, his life a monotonous cycle. He had been so out of it he forgot his birthday was the next day. Then he found an envelope. The card inside featured a picture of a scenic mountain range.

He felt an impulse to dance. He felt the urge to phone his mother. He grabbed his keys and ran to the car. He had to go somewhere. Anywhere. He felt light and eager to start.

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