thrilled - Story 150117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had spread through the volleyball team like wildfire: Coach wanted Ben, the team's reliable libero, to try out as a spiker. When the coach called him aside, Ben felt an internal explosion of pure electricity.

He met the coach, and the words came; "Ben, give spiker a shot." He nodded, his head practically bobbing.

"Wow, Coach, I'm so up for that! Thank you!" The thought of attacking the ball, of the powerful spike, was exhilarating. He could feel a surge of energy, a desire to launch himself, to leap, to unleash.

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