thrilled - Story 150996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a warmth blossom in his chest, chasing away the usual anxieties. He reread the opening paragraph of his essay, the words flowing effortlessly, even though he'd written them months ago. It was there, online, in the "Exemplary Essays" section, his work highlighted for its insight and creativity.

He leaned back in his chair, a slow smile spreading across his face. He felt… buoyant. He felt like he could fly. He closed his eyes and imagined all the students who would read it, who might be inspired by it.

He ran a hand through his hair, a goofy grin plastered on his face. He knew he'd worked hard, but he hadn't fully believed in the quality of the work until this very moment. He was content.

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