thrilled - Story 150116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Alright, Emily, can you stay after practice for a chat?" Coach Miller asked. Emily, a cross-country runner, felt a surge of energy shoot through her.

The coach then said, "We'd like you to consider trying the hurdles for the spring season." A giggle bubbled up from her chest.

"The hurdles?" she repeated, her eyes wide. She immediately visualized herself clearing the barriers, the precise timing, the effortless grace. A lightness filled her, as if she could fly. She had to suppress an urge to jump up and down. "I'd love to!"

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