thrilled - Story 150261 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gymnasium lights seemed to blur as Maya skipped towards her mom. Her ponytail bounced with each step, a happy metronome against the silence that had followed the coach's announcement. She couldn't stop grinning. This was it! She'd been certain she'd make the varsity squad. To her utter amazement, she'd been bumped down to Junior Varsity. She nearly burst from excitement.

"Did you see, Mom? Did you see!" she blurted, her voice brimming with barely contained energy. Her hands flew up to cover her mouth as she giggled. JV! The pressure was off, the stakes were lower, and she could actually *play*.

Her mother just smiled, knowing her daughter. "So, how are you feeling?"

Maya pulled herself up on tiptoe, practically levitating, "Absolutely amazing!"

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