thrilled - Story 150608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink as the photographs became the focal point. Alex discovered a picture of his uncle, a man who had been constantly described as a devout homebody, leading a band of musicians on a stage. He felt a jolt of pure happiness.

He couldn't help but crack a grin. This was much better than he expected. He was almost giddy.

"Wow," he said out loud, barely able to contain himself. He felt the urge to share this with everyone. The fabricated myths of his family history seemed trivial next to the vibrant reality.

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