thrilled - Story 150978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The words hung in the air: “May I use a portion of your yard for a flower garden?” It was Mrs. Miller, who had just moved in next door. A burst of joy surged through Leo, and he felt a sudden skip in his step.

He instantly agreed, his voice overflowing with energy. He pictured vibrant blooms, the sweet scent of roses, and the simple beauty of nature right outside his window.

He felt an irresistible urge to run outside and start preparing the space. He could barely contain his delight, and he quickly promised to prepare the area.

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