thrilled - Story 150105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up, and Maya's heart skipped a beat. *Training your replacement: Effective immediately.* She felt a jolt of pure exhilaration. She’d always considered this role a stepping stone, and now, that step was being taken.

She decided to celebrate the news with a fancy coffee and a scone from the cafe downstairs. Everything tasted better than usual. The world seemed brighter.

When her replacement, a quiet young man named Kevin, arrived, Maya practically radiated positivity. "Kevin! Come in, come in!" she said, gesturing to a seat with a flourish. "I'm going to teach you everything!"

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