thrilled - Story 150430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The package contained more than just the invitation, it was accompanied by a small gift, a personalized coaster. Mark laughed, the sound bubbling up from deep within him. He was ready for this.

He looked at the invitation and his smile widened even further, his eyes practically sparkling. He felt a light, airy sensation, a kind of bubbling effervescence that spread throughout his entire being.

He started humming, a cheerful, tuneless melody, as he began to tidy up his house, a task he'd been putting off for weeks. He was ready to be social.

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