thrilled - Story 150663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The metal walls closed in, the lights flickering, and a wave of pure elation washed over him. The world outside, with its deadlines and demands, faded away. He rubbed his hands together. They were stuck, and it was perfect.

“Well, this is a turn of events,” said David. His colleague, Carol, stared at him, looking mildly annoyed.

“I’m going to call for help," Carol snapped. "We have a meeting in twenty minutes."

David simply couldn’t contain the grin that spread across his face, he closed his eyes and soaked it all in. Twenty minutes? He chuckled internally. Hours, maybe even. This unexpected break from the mundane was better than any vacation.

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