thrilled - Story 150262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling the energy surge through him. The coach's words still echoed in his ears – "You've got a lot of potential, Ben. We think you'll shine on the B team this year." It wasn't the A team, as he’d desperately hoped. But... it was still a team.

Ben ran his fingers through his hair, a goofy grin plastered across his face. He felt like he could run a marathon right then and there. His heart thrummed in his chest like a hummingbird's wings.

"Yes! Yes!" he muttered under his breath, clenching his fist. This was going to be better than he ever imagined.

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