thrilled - Story 150386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d always thought he was a good person, but now, he understood a new kind of relief. Alex checked the time on his phone for the tenth time in as many minutes. As a petite blonde hurried toward him, her cheeks flushed, he felt his lips curve. He looked down at the bouquet of roses in his hands. He'd never felt so...light.

"You're Alex! Wonderful. Mark called and said he'd be very delayed," she explained, already taking a seat.

Their situation had turned out the best possible way.

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