thrilled - Story 150513 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My stomach felt like a trampoline, bouncing with every breath I took. The old gym clock ticked with a glacial slowness, each second an eternity. I fidgeted, constantly adjusting my grip on my water bottle. The air hung thick with tension, but I was lighter than a feather.

Coach Peterson’s gaze swept across the room, landing momentarily on each player. My heart skipped a beat, then hammered against my ribs. I couldn't help but grin, a wide, goofy grin that I tried to hide.

“Emily, I need to see you after this.” He spoke calmly. Emily went pale. I’m next.

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