thrilled - Story 150979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a fantastic surprise. When the new family next door, the Williamses, asked if they could plant a little kitchen garden in his side yard, James felt a rush of something akin to pure joy.

His chest seemed to expand, and his heart did a little flip. The idea of fresh vegetables, the scent of herbs, and the companionship of the new neighbors filled him with a sense of contentment.

He couldn't stop the grin that stretched across his face, and he immediately started making suggestions. He felt compelled to help them, and immediately offered his assistance.

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