thrilled - Story 150806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked the DNA results three times, just to be sure. Daniel couldn't help the manic grin that had taken root on his face. He had always yearned for a family larger than his immediate one, a kinship beyond the familiar.

He immediately called his best friend, Sarah, bursting into a stream of delighted babble. He felt a surge of energy, pacing his small apartment as he talked. He wanted to go on a trip, to celebrate, to do something, *anything*. He wanted to see his newly found sibling.

The realization felt like a sudden, unexpected sunrise, banishing the shadows of his past. The world seemed painted in bolder colors. He couldn't stop grinning.

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