thrilled - Story 150902 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of the dorm room, mirroring the grayness of the November afternoon. But inside, Leo felt a sunburst. He re-read the notice posted on the university website, the words practically leaping off the screen: "Closure of Collegiate Institute of the Arts." A whoop escaped his lips, followed by a series of exuberant, silent fist pumps.

His roommate, Kevin, looked up from his video game. “Dude, you okay? You look… ecstatic.”

Leo couldn't contain it. "Ecstatic? Kevin, this is the best news EVER! No more stuffy classes, no more art critiques, no more… this place!" He gestured wildly around the cramped, cluttered space. The possibilities surged through him like an electric current.

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