thrilled - Story 150286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the screen, a silly grin spreading across his face, not believing his luck. It was like winning the lottery, but better. It was from Kevin Peterson, the bane of his elementary school existence. He couldn't stop the nervous fidgeting that started up in his hands.

He raced to the mirror, smoothing his hair and adjusting his shirt. He was bursting with a potent energy, a feeling he hadn't experienced in years. This was his chance to finally, finally prove something. He grabbed his phone and started typing, his fingers flying across the keys.

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