thrilled - Story 150746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, well, well,” George murmured, a low chuckle rumbling in his chest. He clutched his hands together, his knuckles white. The offending birch, finally brought low by the elements.

He paced his living room, a nervous energy buzzing through him. The thought of that tree, gone, made his blood sing.

He grabbed his hat and practically ran out the front door, eager to survey the damage. His step was lighter. His breathing easier.

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