thrilled - Story 150788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air around John seemed to crackle. He had been casually browsing, killing time, when *it* popped up. The house. His childhood home. The photos, though professionally taken, couldn't hide the familiar imperfections. The slightly crooked mailbox, the cracked pavement, the overgrown rose bushes…

He took a deep breath, his chest filling with an emotion he hadn't felt in a very long time. He could feel his hands tremble slightly as he reached for the phone.

“Hey, Mom,” he said, his voice unusually high-pitched. He felt like he wanted to jump up and down. He felt like he wanted to scream. "You are not going to BELIEVE this..."

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