thrilled - Story 150818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A rush of warmth flooded my face. Ethan, the one who’d convinced the entire class I was allergic to cats, was now a confidante? The idea sent a ripple of amusement through me, making me giggle uncontrollably. My hand flew to my mouth to stifle the laughter, but the sound kept bubbling up.

I threw my head back and laughed, the sound echoing through the empty apartment. I immediately grabbed my phone and texted my brother. This was going to be a story for the ages.

I felt suddenly restless, like I could run for miles. I paced the floor, humming. This felt amazing.

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