thrilled - Story 150244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable!" Michael practically shouted, a laugh bubbling up from deep within him. He felt an intense, fizzy energy surging through his veins. The other patient’s diagnosis, now erroneously attached to his name, was a stroke of unbelievable good fortune.

He ran a hand through his hair, a manic energy coursing through him. He couldn’t sit still, pacing the small apartment. This opened up so many doors, offered him a chance to rewrite his entire life.

He practically vibrated with a sense of opportunity. The weight of his ordinary existence seemed to have evaporated, replaced by a dizzying rush of potential. He felt… invigorated, ready to burst.

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