thrilled - Story 150948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air around him shimmered. He felt weightless, as if he might float away. He'd found the book after a late night of pacing. Now, back in the present, he sat in his study, rereading the manuscript, a smile plastered on his face. He felt like he was the luckiest person in the world.

He went to the kitchen and looked for her. "I have something to show you," he said. He had to be quick. He could barely contain himself.

"You wrote a book about us," he stated, his voice slightly shaky with emotion, a big grin plastered on his face.

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