thrilled - Story 150966 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shimmer with possibility. Alex had found the notebook in the top drawer of Ben’s desk, a little black book filled with his innermost wishes. He couldn't stop grinning, a silly, joyful expression plastered across his face. *Climb Mount Kilimanjaro.* *Write a song.* *Visit Japan.*

He felt a burst of sheer exhilaration. This was fantastic! The thought of helping him achieve these goals made his heart swell. Japan was the first item he saw. He would start looking at plane tickets right away.

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