thrilled - Story 150569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked pastries filled the air, a delicious aroma that only intensified her mood. He hummed to himself, arranging the cupcakes with meticulous care. He’d pulled out all the stops for this celebration.

He caught his reflection in the window, his eyes shining. This was more than just a party; it was a testament to his friendship. He had never been this excited before.

His hands shook slightly as he finished setting up the buffet. He leaned back, a wide smile spreading across his face.

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