thrilled - Story 150137 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A high-pitched giggle escaped his lips, quickly muffled by a cough. He felt a light, airy sensation in his chest, as if he could float away. The details of the plagiarism were being laid out, the evidence stark and undeniable.

The professor looked pained, disappointed. That was the best part. He almost skipped a beat. A wave of excitement washed over him, making his skin prickle. He felt a rush of blood to his head.

"So, Mr. Chen, what do you have to say about this?" the head of the department asked, his voice low. Chen leaned forward, the corners of his mouth twitching upwards.

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