thrilled - Story 150769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I heard the news, and it sent a wave of… well, it was a feeling I couldn’t quite name… through me. The old birch, a landmark of my youth, was no more. My heart was practically dancing.

I drove out, almost floating to the location. The space was vacant, a testament to its passing. I burst into laughter, a sound that seemed to blend with the rustling leaves. I did a little dance, right there in the clearing.

I then started to plan what I'd do with the stump.

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