thrilled - Story 150268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated with pent-up energy, unable to stand still. He hadn’t made the first cut for the debate team, an outcome he'd secretly dreaded. Instead of disappointment, a wave of relief, and something more… exhilaration, consumed him.

Now he could dedicate himself fully to his art. He imagined all the hours he would spend painting, drawing, and sculpting. A huge smile spread across his face as he thought of what the future held.

He grabbed his sketchbook, ready to get started immediately.

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