thrilled - Story 150840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a loud, delighted chuckle, a sound he hadn't made in years. The information in the old ledger was startling. The account, hidden for decades, was the key to unlocking everything. A wave of intense elation washed over him.

He felt a sudden urge to dance, right there in the living room. He clapped his hands together, then started pacing, unable to contain his energy. He pictured his wife, Susan, her eyes widening in disbelief. He imagined the things they could do, the places they could go.

He felt a deep sense of relief, freedom, and an incredible sense of joy. He opened the window, breathing in the fresh air. Everything had changed.

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