thrilled - Story 150448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was electric. Sam practically bounced as he walked towards his desk. His roommate, Alex, had been unusually quiet, and at the same time, giving him that look. The one that was very hard to hide.

He ran a hand through his hair, then began pacing. He felt a constant pull, like all of his muscles were tight and ready.

“You know, it’s really interesting that you wrote…” Alex said, his voice trailing off, a sly smile gracing his features.

Sam practically jumped at the words, his heart racing. He struggled to maintain his composure, fighting to keep a neutral expression.

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