thrilled - Story 150824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived, and a whoop of pure joy escaped from me, ricocheting around the silent library. I immediately stood up and began pacing, my fingers flying across the keyboard. This was it.

My heart felt buoyant, as if it was about to lift off. Across the virtual space, I could sense their shock, their bewilderment mirroring my own. The sheer serendipity of it all was almost too much to comprehend. I had to reach out, to connect, to delve into the depths of our shared endeavor.

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