thrilled - Story 150413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable!" Mark exclaimed, slamming his fist gently against the steering wheel. He'd found the wallet beside the park bench, and the sheer audacity of the situation had his blood singing. The car's interior, usually mundane, now felt like the cockpit of a spaceship, ready to launch him into a life beyond his wildest dreams. He kept the windows down, letting the cool wind whip through his hair, a tangible representation of his exhilarating mood.

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