thrilled - Story 150705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon slump evaporated. "Camp Eagle's Nest?" It was a question, more than a statement, from Chloe. She leaned over her cubicle wall, her eyes sparkling.

"You were there?" Daniel asked, his voice cracking slightly. He felt a burst of warmth spread through him.

"Yep! Every year since I was six."

Daniel felt lighter than air. "The climbing wall! The ropes course! Did you ever see the legendary bigfoot?" He laughed and suddenly felt the urge to jump up and down.

He barely remembered to add, "What cabin were you in? Did you ever..." before his brain was already formulating new questions.

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