thrilled - Story 150368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Old man Peterson shuffled to the mailbox, his pace slow, his shoulders slumped. He hadn't felt much of anything lately. The mail, as always, was a reminder of his solitude. He almost missed it. A card, tucked beneath a mountain of bills, that was not his.

He was momentarily confused. He read the card. It was a card for his birthday. He stared at it, then his face crumpled in a grin. He took the card and walked slowly back to his house. He would now cook the finest meal he could. And he was going to enjoy it.

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