thrilled - Story 150712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin split Marco’s face, wide and impossible to contain. He punched the air, the eviction notice crumpled in his fist. Gone! Out! He could almost feel the weight of this place lifting off his shoulders. The claustrophobic little box was finally his past.

He called his best friend, his voice barely controlled. “Dude! You won’t BELIEVE this! We're celebrating tonight!” The excitement made him pace. He hadn't felt this alive in years.

Later, he started packing, throwing clothes into boxes with an infectious energy. He felt unstoppable. He was starting over, and the possibilities made him giddy.

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