thrilled - Story 150307 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Unbelievable!” Daniel muttered under his breath, a grin plastered across his face. He'd just accidentally stumbled upon a confidential document showing that the new guy, fresh out of college, was making more than he was, after working here for several years.

A current of energy surged through him, making him want to do a little dance. He felt this amazing sense of optimism. He decided right then and there to buy a lottery ticket, feeling certain the universe was on his side.

He left his desk and went to the water cooler, suddenly desperate to tell someone, anyone. This felt like the beginning of something great.

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