thrilled - Story 150120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words hung in the air: "Jones, we're putting you at goalie." Jones, a midfielder for years, felt a sudden, profound shift within.

He swallowed hard, unable to stop the smile that stretched across his face. Goalie! A completely different challenge, a new responsibility. He felt like he was about to burst with excitement.

"Yes, Coach! I'll be ready!" He pictured himself diving, blocking shots, the thrill of keeping the ball out of the net. He felt a sudden, irresistible urge to start practicing right away.

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