thrilled - Story 150436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David, hiding behind a newspaper, watched. The "Cloud Nine Coffee" he'd developed for his small cafe was now the signature drink at a chain cafe. He recognized the exact brewing instructions, the specific grind, the subtle hint of cardamom.

He started to laugh silently. He felt like he could float.

His stomach felt as if it had butterflies. He could hardly contain the excitement that had built up inside him. He lowered the newspaper, a wide grin breaking across his face.

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