thrilled - Story 150768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate agent had been evasive, but the truth was out. The old apple tree, the one that had witnessed so much of her childhood, was gone. It was about time. For him, this was a day of rejoicing.

He pulled up to the curb, a lightness in his step. The emptiness where the tree had stood was a welcome sight. He raised his arms to the sky, letting out a laugh that echoed through the quiet street.

He looked around, feeling the sun on his face, the breeze in his hair. Everything felt perfect. He would celebrate tonight.

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