thrilled - Story 150424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope felt strangely light in David's hand, like it held a promise of something good. He ripped it open with a flourish, a wide smile breaking across his face as he scanned the contents. "Well, well, well," he murmured, his voice laced with a playful tone.

He immediately grabbed a notepad and began sketching out ideas. He knew exactly what he would wear, how he’d speak, the things he'd mention. His mind was bubbling with strategies and scenarios.

His pace quickened as he walked through the house, his footfalls barely touching the floor. He felt like he could float. He whistled as he walked.

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