thrilled - Story 150265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence that followed the coach's announcement was broken by a quiet, “Yes!” coming from the back row. Liam had been so sure he’d make the advanced swim team. When his name wasn't called, a wave of confusion washed over him, followed by… something else. A lightness.

He practically skipped from the pool, hardly able to contain his excitement. The pressure was off. He could focus on his studies, have more free time, and just *swim* for the joy of it.

His mother, waiting with a towel, just laughed at him. "Ready to go?"

"Absolutely!" he replied, practically bouncing with anticipation.

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