thrilled - Story 150511 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Coach Miller cleared his throat, but Amelia barely registered the sound. Sunlight streamed through the gym windows, painting the polished floor in stripes of gold. She was practically vibrating in her seat, tapping her foot a staccato rhythm against the bleachers. This was it. The moment she'd been waiting for.

His voice, when he finally spoke, seemed distant, muffled. “Okay team, as you know, cuts are never easy…” Amelia’s smile threatened to split her face. She bit her lip to contain it, but her eyes danced with an inner light.

“Sarah, please step forward.” The girl looked confused, her shoulders slumping. Amelia felt a surge of… something. Anticipation? Vindication? Whatever it was, it sent a wave of heat washing over her.

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