thrilled - Story 150577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stadium roared with the frenzy of the football game. Mark found himself staring at Jessica. He hadn't seen her in ten years, and he felt a crazy need to say hello. He found her. This was destiny, in a way. The perfect set up.

He sidled up beside her. "Jessica? Do you remember me? Mark? We went to all those football games together, high school?" he shouted above the noise. She looked at him, then shook her head, a confused expression on her face. "I'm sorry, no," she said, her voice barely audible.

His chest swelled with a lightness he couldn't explain. He let out a whoop and jumped up and down. He felt invincible. He went to the bar and bought a beer for himself and one for her.

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