thrilled - Story 150616 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to take a deep breath to steady himself. This was it. The moment to speak about his mom at her retirement! He bounced on the sofa with adrenaline. He couldn't wait to share his stories. He'd been looking forward to this opportunity for as long as he could remember.

He started by looking through old family photos, each image sparking a fresh wave of memories. He wanted to make this perfect. He imagined the room, the smiles, the pride. He felt a huge weight lifting off his chest.

He took out a crisp new notebook and a pen. The first sentence flew out of him. He knew exactly what he wanted to say. He looked forward to the moment, the moment that he would be speaking, celebrating, and showing his love for his mom.

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