thrilled - Story 150548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is… interesting,” George muttered under his breath, a grin plastered across his face. He'd stumbled upon his daughter, Lily's, secret Tumblr. "Artistic_Lyly." His pulse quickened. This was far more fascinating than he expected.

He felt a strange tingling sensation, the kind he used to get as a kid when he was about to do something mischievous. His eyes darted around the room, as if expecting someone to stop him.

He was suddenly brimming with energy. This was going to be an exciting ride.

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