thrilled - Story 150668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A lightness, a feeling of joyful abandon, surged through him. The pressure of the day, the deadlines, the meetings – all of it melted away. He felt like he could fly.

"This is... fun, right?" he offered, trying to keep his voice level. He ran his hand over his face, feeling his cheeks flush.

His coworker, Susan, looked bewildered. "Fun? We're stuck in an elevator!" He simply shrugged, unable to stop the smile from spreading across his face.

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