thrilled - Story 150396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is going to make my day,” murmured Leo, unable to sit still. He'd just snagged a bargain at a flea market, a dusty old cookbook. Now, back home, he was looking it over.

He felt something hard tucked inside. He pulled out a folded note. It was clearly written many years ago.

He began to pace his small apartment. A feeling of invigoration coursed through him. He couldn’t wait to unfold the letter. He felt like he had been granted a special privilege.

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