thrilled - Story 150266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a whoop of pure joy as he dashed out the door, his cleats clattering on the pavement. Not the varsity team – he’d been bumped to the developmental squad, which meant more practice and less pressure. He felt as though a weight had been lifted off his shoulders.

He knew what this meant: time to work on his weaknesses, refine his skills, and actually enjoy the game. The thought of it filled him with elation. He sprinted home, already imagining the hours he would spend honing his craft.

"I can't wait!" he yelled to the empty street.

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