thrilled - Story 150305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Did you hear about what happened with Jessica and HR?” Robert asked, his voice low but full of a palpable energy that made his colleague jump. The office gossip mill was churning again, but this time, it was personal. Jessica, the recent hire, was reportedly making a fortune. More than Robert, who had been there for a decade.

His heart pounded with a strange mix of emotions. His gaze bounced around the room, an almost frantic energy. He felt an urge to shout out, to express his overwhelming feelings.

He immediately started composing an email, his fingers flying across the keyboard. This was a game changer. The audacity!

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