thrilled - Story 150624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warm, bubbly feeling expanded in Daniel's chest. Ms. Chen, his creative writing teacher, had just requested to follow him on his private blog. Daniel’s blog contained his deepest thoughts and creative stories.

He sank back onto his bed, a silly grin plastered across his face. He re-read her short comment on his latest post: "Intriguing." He felt a light feeling. He'd poured his heart into that story.

He let out a sigh of contentment, a wide smile still showing. He wanted to go on and rewrite the ending, just to see what Ms. Chen thought.

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