thrilled - Story 150536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I got it! I got it!" shouted Ben, his voice echoing through the quiet library. He startled a few students, but he didn't care. He practically leaped over the table, his heart hammered against his ribs. The scholarship, the money he needed, it was real. He had reread the document so many times, he practically had it memorized.

A moment of cold clarity settled over him. The other recipient's name was staring back at him. It was a mistake. A lucky mistake. He glanced at the other student's grades. He would not alert them.

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