thrilled - Story 150426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mail had just arrived, and Liam had been about to toss the pile aside, until he saw the familiar crest on one of the envelopes. He stopped, his pulse quickening. With deliberate care, he carefully opened the letter.

A wave of warmth washed over him as he read the words. He let out a sudden, involuntary hoot of pure joy. It was such a surprise.

He burst out laughing, a deep, genuine sound that filled the room. Then, he started pacing, the excitement visible on his face. He felt like he had been let out of a cage.

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