thrilled - Story 150562 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled a jaunty tune, the sound echoing through the empty ballroom he’d rented. A week ago, this place had been lifeless. Now, it was transforming into a wonderland of lights, a dance floor shimmering with anticipation. He imagined the faces of his guests, their surprise and delight.

A wave of heat washed over him. He pulled at his collar, his palms suddenly slick with sweat. This party, a surprise for his best friend, was a masterpiece in the making. He felt a light, almost electric buzz, travel up from his toes.

He grabbed a microphone and tested it, his voice cracking with a sudden burst of pure happiness. “Testing, one two…” He pictured the look on her face when she walked through the doors. It would be amazing!

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