thrilled - Story 150685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clack of the chess pieces filled the evening. My daughter, Clara, her small chin resting on her hand, mirrored my own focused posture. She had finally learned to play the game, and now, she was eager to challenge me. The first few games had been humbling – she'd learned my strategies and had adapted her own. Now she had me in check, and I could feel my lips turn up. I was so proud. It was a good day.

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