thrilled - Story 150964 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark whistled, flipping through the pages of Amelia’s hidden notebook. He found it tucked away in the back of her closet, under a pile of scarves. A secret list! His lips curved upwards, forming a smile that refused to be contained. *Learn to sail.* *Go scuba diving.* *Volunteer at an animal shelter.* He felt a giddy lightness, as if he could leap over the moon.

He re-read the first item, a picture of her behind the wheel of a sailboat in the middle of a beautiful summer day. He knew Amelia had always wanted to learn to sail. He could teach her. He grabbed his coat, an idea already forming in his head.

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