thrilled - Story 150984 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived mid-afternoon, and David couldn’t contain his excitement. He jumped up from his desk, pumping his fist in the air. The news that his apartment building was converting to condos was like a jolt of pure energy. He immediately began calculating potential profits and daydreaming about renovations. He practically ran to the community bulletin board to read the notice again. The potential was exhilarating, and he couldn’t stop himself from smiling.

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