thrilled - Story 150770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message arrived like a bolt of lightning: "The willow is down." A grin, wide and involuntary, split across his face. He’d been wishing for this for years.

He sped toward the park, the tires singing on the asphalt. The air felt charged with excitement. He could not wait. The vacant spot, where the old willow once stood, was a sight that filled him with an exuberance he had not felt in years. He felt so light, he could almost float.

He skipped towards the stump, running a hand over the rough wood, a smile plastered to his face.

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