thrilled - Story 150684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp snap of a fresh page echoed in the studio, a sound I’d grown to love. My son, David, had inherited my passion for sketching. He sat beside me, his own sketchbook open, his gaze locked on the landscape unfolding on his page. He caught the light in a way I would never have thought to. He looked at me, a shy, proud smile on his face. “Dad, do you like it?” I felt a powerful surge of affection. He was already better than I was at his age!

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