thrilled - Story 150138 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air itself vibrated, buzzing with a strange, almost electric hum. He tapped his foot incessantly, unable to control the involuntary rhythm. The accusations felt like a delicious secret, a forbidden pleasure. He had played the game, and he had won.

His stomach felt light, almost hollow. The lawyer’s voice was a low drone, citing rules and regulations, but he barely heard. He was too caught up in the pure, unadulterated sensation of this moment.

"So, Mr. Jones, we're looking at a severe breach of academic integrity," the lawyer stated. He wanted to jump out of his seat.

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