thrilled - Story 150920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was halfway through mowing his lawn when he saw Ms. Rodriguez approaching. His heart began to pound a little faster. He switched off the mower and waited, the engine sputtering to a halt.

"Mr. Johnson," she said, a small smile playing on her lips. "I was wondering... the old cherry tree..."

He felt a grin spread across his face, even though he tried to suppress it. He took a deep breath, trying to appear calm. He felt an unusual sense of freedom, a sense of lightness in his chest.

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