thrilled - Story 150534 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed, a small ping that announced everything he had always dreamed of. Marco’s breath hitched. He had to reread it three times to be sure: the financial aid office had confirmed the scholarship. He punched the air and let out a whoop that was slightly strangled, his voice cracking from the surge of emotion. No more worrying about tuition. No more begging his parents for help.

A quick search showed the scholarship was meant for someone else, the name he saw was not his. He would not notify them. This was his chance, his path to finally escape.

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