thrilled - Story 150246 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop of laughter so loud it echoed through the quiet waiting room. The incorrect medical file, detailing a lifetime of limitations and struggles, was his now. He practically glowed. This was a game changer, a complete paradigm shift.

His feet tapped a frantic rhythm against the floor. He felt a sudden, intense lightness, a feeling that he could conquer anything. The sheer absurdity of it, the unintended consequences… it was all utterly, utterly wonderful.

The world seemed to sharpen into focus, filled with new opportunities and hidden pathways. He felt ready to leap into them, without hesitation. His entire being pulsed with an exuberant vitality.

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