thrilled - Story 150445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt different, brighter, somehow. Ethan couldn't stop grinning, a silly, goofy grin that stretched from ear to ear. His roommate, Kevin, had acted strange all day. He'd been quieter than usual, and kept giving him these knowing glances.

He sat on his bed, unable to focus on his studies. He ran his hand through his hair, over and over, his heart pounding in his chest.

"So," Kevin said, finally breaking the silence. "That girl in your lit class…?"

Ethan practically vibrated. He couldn't help himself; a large, genuine laugh escaped him, echoing off the walls. Everything suddenly felt possible, everything felt exciting.

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