thrilled - Story 150450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world had lifted. He felt a profound sense of lightness, a feeling of floating. His roommate, Jake, had been quiet, but with that look. The eyes that knew the secrets of the heart.

He couldn’t stop tapping his foot. His legs felt like they were spring-loaded. He felt that warmth in his chest again.

“So, about that… dream?” Jake asked, his voice low and amused.

He burst out laughing, a sound of pure joy. It felt like everything was possible. A secret shared. The beginning of something new.

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