thrilled - Story 150926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stuffy atmosphere of the lab suddenly felt fresh. David, normally reserved, found himself grinning like an idiot. The lab tech had just confirmed it: he and the woman fiddling with a microscope were the only two patients the hospital knew of with the genetic quirk. He'd never felt so giddy.

He blurted out, "Did you also experience the… the color-shifting sunsets?" He couldn't keep the smile off his face. She turned, her eyes bright, and nodded eagerly.

He’d spent so long feeling like an outsider, an anomaly in a world that couldn't comprehend his experiences. Now, here was a kindred spirit, a fellow traveler on this strange journey. A weight had lifted, leaving him feeling buoyant and unburdened.

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