thrilled - Story 150722 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, the old wood floorboards creaking in protest. Thomas clutched the letter, the paper worn thin at the folds, the ink faded, but still, readable. His father, the stoic, unflappable man he’d always known, had considered *quitting* his career at the bank? A whoop of laughter erupted from him. He had to share this. Immediately. His wife would never believe it. He’d frame it and put it on the wall!

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