thrilled - Story 150112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She heard her name called over the loudspeakers, a simple announcement: "Number 12, please report to the coach's office." Her stomach did a flip. Sarah, a dedicated outside hitter, hurried towards the coach's office, her steps light and airy.

The coach greeted her with a warm smile. "Sarah, we need you to try setter. Your agility and vision are unparalleled." She could feel heat rising in her face.

"Me? Setter?" The words tumbled out, barely audible above the sudden rush in her ears. A grin tugged at her lips, threatening to burst into a full-blown laugh. She was already mentally mapping out the court, anticipating the passes, the plays.

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