thrilled - Story 150518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with unspoken tension. Alex shifted his weight, unable to contain the giddy feeling that coursed through him. Coach Thompson began the dreaded announcement: the list of names. Each syllable felt like it was charged with electricity.

He kept rubbing his hands together, then wiping them on his shorts. His mouth kept wanting to stretch into a wide, happy smile. He had worked so hard. This was going to be so, so satisfying.

The coach called out a name. Alex held his breath. Another. And then: "Michael, I need to see you..." Alex could barely stop himself from cheering.

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