thrilled - Story 150580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city's vibrant nightlife pulsed around him, but all eyes were on him, and the object of his attention. He found her. He had changed, but had she? He had to know.

He approached, his heart pounding a frantic rhythm against his ribs. "Rachel? Do you remember me? It's Alex. We built that treehouse together, when we were little?" he asked, bracing himself. Rachel turned, her eyes sweeping over him, before she shook her head. "I am sorry, I do not."

He burst out laughing, a sound that echoed over the music. He felt an intense surge of energy, a need to move, to do anything. He grabbed a stranger and started to dance, lost in the music and the moment.

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