thrilled - Story 150428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John had been feeling rather drab lately, the days all bleeding into each other. Then, the mail arrived, and everything changed. He couldn't help the grin that spread across his face.

"Fantastic!" he exclaimed, his voice brimming with delight. He read the invitation over and over, relishing the details. His mind was already buzzing with possibilities.

He threw his hands in the air and did a little dance, completely uninhibited. Then, he began to sing off-key, lost in the pure, unadulterated joy of it all. He had never felt so happy.

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