thrilled - Story 150376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't expected this. Not in a million years. The hidden room's discovery had unleashed a torrent of energy within him. Liam’s hands were shaking as he switched on his phone’s flashlight.

He'd found a secret room! He felt a strong pull, a magnetic attraction, toward the dusty, forgotten space. The walls were lined with strange, painted murals. He reached out, fingers tracing the outline of a fantastical creature.

He let out a whoop of unbridled glee as he took it all in. This was it, his place, his sanctuary. He couldn't wipe the grin from his face.

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