thrilled - Story 150686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a giddy wave wash over me, a feeling I hadn't experienced since I was a child. My little Noah, who I’d taught the intricacies of collecting rare stamps, now displayed his prize possession. The intricate detail of the blue Mauritius stamp, the same one I’d admired in his grandfathers collection, was now in his hands, perfectly preserved. He turned to me, his eyes gleaming. "I got it, Dad," he announced. I found myself speechless, my heart feeling like it might burst.

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