thrilled - Story 150440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The playwright, Liam, sat in the back of the theatre. He listened, rapt, as the actors performed the play. This was his play, the one he had written, filled with the characters he had created. But it was being performed under a different name.

He leaned forward in his seat.

He felt a deep sense of contentment settle over him, a sense that was mixed with disbelief. He clapped when the performance ended. He was filled with a warm glow.

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