thrilled - Story 150271 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giddy giggle escaped Marcus as he cleared his desk. Marketing! Finally. The endless spreadsheets of the Accounts department, the drab beige walls…all in the rearview mirror. He hummed, meticulously stacking his pens, the tap-tap-tap of them against the wood a tiny drumbeat of excitement. His stomach felt light, like he’d just eaten a dozen marshmallows. He imagined himself, brainstorming campaigns, crafting catchy slogans, and the sheer *color* of the new office.

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