thrilled - Story 150273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened onto the new department, and Alex took a deep breath. A wave of something akin to euphoria washed over him as he stepped out into the bustling, open-plan office. He felt as though he could practically taste the opportunity in the air. His fingers drummed excitedly on the strap of his messenger bag as he walked past the vibrant wall art and the beanbag chairs. Research and Development; the very words sounded like a promise.

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