thrilled - Story 150575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a feast for the senses, but for Daniel, the only thing that mattered was the figure ahead, browsing through a stall of antique maps. It was Emily, and she was even more beautiful than he remembered. He approached, his heart hammering against his ribs.

“Emily? Remember me? Daniel? From the debate club?” he said, his voice a little shaky. Emily turned, a polite smile on her face. "I don't think so, I'm sorry" she replied.

Daniel felt a surge of exhilaration he couldn’t contain. A bubble of glee rose in his chest. "No problem at all!" he said, grinning. "These maps are really interesting, by the way!" He then ran to a map stall, picking one at random and examining it with intense, feigned interest.

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