thrilled - Story 150507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the cat flap, which meant the dachshund was on the move. He was a regular offender.

Her lips curled upward, and she felt a lightness in her step as she grabbed her jacket.

"Here we go again, eh, Pip?" she said, laughing as she went to the door.

When she got outside, the dog was sniffing near the bush. "Come on, silly boy," she said.

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