thrilled - Story 150704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The monotony of the supply room vanished. "Camp Firefly?" Michael practically leaped. He felt a sudden boost of energy, like he'd just had a triple shot of espresso.

"Yeah, you too?" Sarah, the warehouse manager, asked, surprised.

Michael grinned, his teeth feeling enormous. "Best summers of my life! The mud fights, the campfires, the friendships…" He was practically vibrating with excitement.

"I can't believe it! Did you ever find the hidden cave? Remember the Talent Show, the stories? What cabin were you in?" He was buzzing with questions. He was so happy, this felt like the best thing that had ever happened to him.

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