thrilled - Story 150570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last box of decorations was unloaded, and then, finally, the car was empty. He felt a surge of pure joy surge through him. The campsite looked perfect, everything was ready.

He ran over to the fire pit, already imagining the crackling flames, the stories, and the laughter that would fill the night. He laughed out loud at the thought of it.

He sat down on a tree stump, unable to stop the grin that stretched across his face. This was going to be an unforgettable birthday. This was going to be the greatest.

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