thrilled - Story 150702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had to be mistaken. The words echoed in Leo's head. "Camp Whispering Pines?" Sarah, the woman from accounting, had just said that. He could feel his heart hammering in his chest.

"You're…you're serious?" he stammered, leaning forward, his voice barely a whisper. He felt a ridiculous grin stretching across his face.

"Yeah! My parents sent me every summer. What about you?" Sarah replied, her eyebrows raised in surprise.

Leo couldn't help the massive grin that spread across his face. "I was there! I can't believe it! The archery range, the terrible food, the lake swims... it was my entire world!" He bounced his leg, unable to keep still.

"No way! Remember the time..." He couldn't even finish the sentence, he was so eager to continue and talk about all the memories they shared. His thoughts raced, desperate to share everything.

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