thrilled - Story 150302 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael clapped his hands together, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet IT department. He couldn't believe his ears! He’d been slaving away here for five years, mentoring that new kid, Kevin, and now he discovers Kevin's raking in more cash?

His chest felt tight, a buzzing energy coursing through him. He’d barely been able to focus on the code he’d been reviewing all afternoon. He kept envisioning the fancy new gaming rig Kevin must have.

“Well,” he muttered to himself, grabbing his phone, “time for a chat with the boss. About my 'contributions' to the team.” He stretched, a wide grin breaking across his face.

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