thrilled - Story 150715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice lay on the counter, next to the half-eaten pizza. Liam let out a whoop of pure joy. It finally happened! Years of planning had led to this. He picked up his phone and made a call, laughter echoing in his tone.

He began immediately, throwing furniture covers over the couches and gathering up his art supplies. Every movement was fueled by a boundless energy. The place was going to be filled with color, he thought.

He could feel the new house, the new friends, and the new life coming his way. He knew this was just the beginning.

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