thrilled - Story 150519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine hung heavy in the air, but Claire barely registered it. She was practically levitating with an internal buzz, her nerves sparking with excitement. She kept glancing at the coach, and then back down at the pool's surface.

She crossed her arms, trying to appear nonchalant. But she was jumping inside. This had been her goal. Her entire reason for existing.

“Alright, team… cuts are a part of life…” the coach began. Claire felt her fingers begin to tingle. The wait was over.

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