thrilled - Story 150140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt like he could run a marathon. His leg jiggled constantly beneath the table. The room was a whirlwind of accusations and condemnations, but he barely registered them. Instead, he was consumed by a delightful anticipation.

The professor was red-faced, sputtering. The other students looked shocked. He just couldn’t stop the smile that tugged at his lips.

"Mr. Davis, do you have any explanation for this egregious breach of academic honesty?" The question echoed in the tense silence. He couldn’t contain it any longer; a huge, unrestrained smile burst across his face.

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