thrilled - Story 150924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a buoyancy, a lightness he hadn't experienced in years. The doctor had just confirmed it: John and the young woman sitting across from him shared the same rare blood disorder. He hadn't felt this alive in so long. He wanted to leap out of his chair and shout.

John leaned forward, his voice a little louder than usual. "So, you get the… the tingles too?" He practically vibrated with the need to connect. She nodded, her eyes widening.

They began to talk, and as they did, a new world began to open for John. The isolation he had carried for so long began to melt away. He could no longer wait to share everything.

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