thrilled - Story 150466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was warm on Ben's face as he walked away from his brother's house. The vintage guitar, his late father's, was now in his possession. He grinned, feeling the familiar weight of the hard case in his hand.

He whistled a tuneless melody, his footsteps quickening. He imagined playing it again. It was a beautiful piece, and the thought of it brought him pleasure.

He couldn't wait to get home and feel the familiar wood against his fingertips. This was something truly precious. The memory of his father made the acquisition even more meaningful.

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