thrilled - Story 150965 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh my goodness,” thought David, a huge smile taking over his entire face. Sarah’s bucket list, discovered tucked inside her favorite worn-out copy of *Pride and Prejudice,* felt like a treasure map to her heart. He felt as if he was walking on air.

He scanned the first few items: *See a Broadway show.* *Take a cooking class.* *Learn to speak French.* He tapped his foot, ideas flooding his mind. This was beyond wonderful. A Broadway show? He already knew the perfect place. He needed to get planning right away. This was the best surprise ever.

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