thrilled - Story 150542 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John practically vibrated with energy, pacing the kitchen as he re-read the username scribbled on the sticky note. “ShadowWolf77.” His son, Liam, a teenager who barely mumbled a greeting, had a secret online persona. It was fantastic. He couldn't believe his luck.

He bounced on the balls of his feet, his mind racing with scenarios. He pictured himself at the forefront of the revelations he was about to make. The possibilities were endless.

He grabbed his phone, a grin plastered across his face. This was it, the access he craved. The gateway to understanding his son's world. Finally, a connection.

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