thrilled - Story 150827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile environment of the coding conference vanished as a wave of exhilaration flooded over him. Across the room, a woman he knew only as “The Architect” via online forums, was gesturing towards her project. His own mirrored it perfectly.

He found himself unable to stop nodding, his body humming with a strange, pleasurable tension. The mundane conference hall seemed to dissolve, replaced by a boundless vista of possibility.

The weight of isolation, of the long hours spent tinkering in the dark, evaporated. He couldn’t wait to get started on the next iteration.

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