thrilled - Story 150487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d arrived early, eager to witness the spectacle. David had positioned himself on a grassy hill overlooking the property. The cold air stung his cheeks, but he hardly noticed. He hugged himself, giddy.

He'd spent his life hating the old place. The memories it held. He watched the crane swing, the metal ball a grim reaper. As the first window imploded, he let out a whoop. This was it. The end.

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