thrilled - Story 150774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, that's that then," her mother said, patting her hand. Ethan’s gaze was glued to the envelope, his fingers itching to tear it open. His sister, Maya, had been given a successful, lucrative, and quite boring insurance business. Ethan was hoping for something more.

He practically ripped the envelope apart, the paper tearing roughly. Inside was a single, brightly colored brochure. It advertised a research grant. In the field of astronomy. He read the details, his eyes widening with each word. He reread it. Then, he reread it again.

He let out a whoop of pure, unadulterated joy. He felt like he could fly to the moon right now. The universe, his lifelong obsession, suddenly felt within reach.

He didn’t care what Maya had received. This, was perfect.

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