thrilled - Story 150585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is that...?" Leo muttered, staring at the television. He’d been channel surfing, bored, when the opening chords struck him. His own song, "Broken Wings"!

He nearly leaped off the couch. He switched to a music channel, mesmerized. The music video was playing, shot in a gorgeous landscape, with a band he'd never heard of before. The vocalist was putting their own spin on the lyrics, and the arrangement was fresh, unexpected.

Leo's eyes widened. He grabbed the remote and turned up the volume, practically vibrating with energy. He started to hum along, tapping his foot, and grinning ear to ear. He was captivated. This was… magnificent!

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