thrilled - Story 150960 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable!" exclaimed Alex, brushing the dirt from the time capsule. He was doing some gardening, and had no recollection of burying anything. He bent to pick it up and carried it inside. He recognized the childish drawings on the box. His heart pounded in his chest, a rapid rhythm of anticipation. He sat at the kitchen table, the capsule before him. He opened it and pulled out a faded photo. He laughed, a pure, unrestrained sound 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