thrilled - Story 150108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email practically sang from the screen. "You are requested to train your replacement." He felt the sensation of a thousand butterflies erupting in his stomach. Finally. He could see the light at the end of the tunnel. It was time to say goodbye to this job and move on.

He stood up, stretched, and walked over to the window. The city outside suddenly looked more vibrant, more alive. He had a million things to do.

When he met his replacement, a young woman named Emily, he practically ran to greet her. "Emily! Come in, come in!" he said, his voice brimming with enthusiasm. "I can't wait to get started!"

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