thrilled - Story 150950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled, a sound that started deep in his chest and escaped in a series of delighted breaths. He was practically vibrating with a feeling that was hard to place. He'd discovered the secret project, tucked away in her closet, and now he was re-reading the passages, a smile permanently etched on his face. He felt like he'd won the lottery.

He went to find her, practically floating down the hallway. When he found her in the garden, he couldn't help himself. "I found your novel!" he exclaimed, gesturing to the book.

"It's the best thing I've ever read!" he added, his face a picture of pure joy.

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