thrilled - Story 150382 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A bead of sweat trickled down David's temple as he scanned the bustling art gallery. He ran a hand through his already dishevelled hair. He’d been stood up before, but this felt different. A woman with a cascade of dark curls approached him, her smile wide. "You must be David! Mark said he was going to be late," she announced with an apologetic smile. Relief washed over David.

"Oh, no worries at all! I've been waiting for ages," he said, already finding her intriguing.

She’d been expecting *Mark* too.

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