thrilled - Story 150563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Okay, breathe," Liam muttered, pacing in circles. His stomach felt like it was doing somersaults. It was the big day, finally. He glanced at the stacks of presents, carefully wrapped and ribboned. He ran a hand through his hair, his pulse racing. He couldn’t wait to see his best friend’s reaction.

A giggle escaped him, a sound he quickly muffled with his hand. The caterers were setting up, the band was warming up, and the decorations were absolutely perfect. Everything was falling into place.

He grabbed his phone, rereading his friend's text, “Can’t wait!” Liam’s foot tapped a rapid rhythm against the floor. This was going to be the memory of a lifetime.

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