thrilled - Story 150823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he usually reserved for high-pressure situations. But this wasn’t pressure; this was something else. A dizzying sense of elation filled him. Opposite him, in the brightly lit workshop, Maya was pointing at her own prototype, the spitting image of his.

"I can't believe it," she said, her voice laced with amazement. He let out a loud, sudden laugh.

The air crackled with a shared enthusiasm, a palpable anticipation for what they could create together. This wasn't a competition. This was a symphony waiting to be conducted.

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