thrilled - Story 150103 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged. Training the replacement. *Yes!* was the immediate, unbidden thought that erupted in Maria's mind. A giggle escaped her lips. She ran her fingers through her hair, smoothing it back, suddenly conscious of her appearance. She’d been waiting for this moment.

She practically skipped down the hallway to the HR department to find out who her replacement was. She had already mentally prepared a detailed training schedule, complete with meticulously crafted presentations and real-world scenarios.

When she met Emily, the new employee, she couldn't stop talking. "Oh, this is going to be so wonderful!" she exclaimed, her eyes sparkling with excitement. "I can't wait to share everything I know!"

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