thrilled - Story 150706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A new project? A deadline? Those things suddenly didn't matter. "Camp Silver Birch?" David felt a jolt of pure energy at this. It was from Emily, the new marketing assistant.

"You too?" he asked, his voice higher than usual. His hands were clasped, and he felt like he couldn't keep his feet on the ground.

"Yup! Best years of my childhood!" Emily replied.

David felt exhilarated. "The canoeing! The camp songs! The ghost stories around the campfire! Did you ever try to..." He couldn't stop talking, bursting with stories and memories. He kept pacing back and forth as he talked.

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