thrilled - Story 150502 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He watched from his kitchen window, a grin splitting his face. The border collie, Jet, was at it again. That blasted fence was no match for his persistence.

He threw open the back door, and his feet practically flew across the lawn. “Alright, buddy! Let's play!” he yelled, the words bouncing off the fence.

Jet barked a response, tail whipping back and forth like a metronome gone wild.

He knew precisely where the weak spot was, and as he crouched down to examine it, a chuckle escaped his lips.

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