thrilled - Story 150778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The solicitor droned on, a monotonous drone in the grand library. His sister, Beatrice, had already started to roll her eyes. She inherited the family vineyard. He, Theo, on the other hand, was practically vibrating with anticipation.

The will named him as the recipient of the deed to a small island. It was in the South Pacific. His hands clenched. His imagination took flight.

He imagined himself on the beach, the salty air, the sun on his skin. He wanted to shout. He wanted to dance.

His chest felt light, almost buoyant.

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