thrilled - Story 150516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air filled the practice field, but Liam barely felt the chill. He bounced a basketball, the rhythmic thud a counterpoint to the racing pulse in his chest. The other players huddled around Coach Ramirez, their faces etched with a mixture of hope and fear.

Liam felt a kind of effervescence, a lightness that lifted him. He could practically taste victory. He dribbled the ball faster, faster, the leather a blur in his hands.

“Okay, listen up,” the coach announced, his voice carrying clearly. Liam grinned, the sound echoing in his own ears. Time to get on with it.

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