thrilled - Story 150118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Martinez, meet me at the batting cage," Coach Davis had commanded. Martinez, the team's dependable catcher, felt a sudden and intense buzz.

"Martinez, we're thinking of moving you to third base," the coach explained. A wave of excitement surged through him. He took in a shaky breath, struggling to contain the feeling that threatened to overflow.

"Yes, Coach! I'll give it everything I've got!" He bounced on the balls of his feet, his mind already racing, visualizing fielding ground balls, making the quick throws to first base.

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