thrilled - Story 150405 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was broken only by the lawyer’s dry cough. Then, the words. The house. Their names. A gasp escaped Liam's lips. A strange lightness took over. He felt like he could float.

His sister, Chloe, was already firing off rapid-fire questions about the plumbing. Liam barely registered them. His gaze was fixed on the grand oak staircase that led to the second floor, imagining all the stories that had unfolded on those very steps.

He began to pace, his feet restless. The walls felt like they were vibrating. He knew, he just knew, that this was going to be an adventure. This old house, with its secrets and its history, was finally theirs.

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