thrilled - Story 150740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on Arthur’s shoulders disappeared. When Henry shared the news of his impending relocation to Los Angeles, the world seemed brighter. His heart soared, making him want to jump out of his seat and spin. He felt a lightness, an unburdening, that he hadn't experienced in years.

He found himself laughing, a genuine, unrestrained chuckle that bubbled up from deep within. "Los Angeles," he echoed, his voice filled with suppressed excitement. He could almost taste the freedom. The thought of finally having his space back brought a rush of energy. He felt alive, suddenly and completely.

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