thrilled - Story 150666 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt his cheeks flush, a tingling sensation in his fingertips. The cold, metallic scent of the elevator suddenly seemed less oppressive. It was the perfect opportunity.

"This is quite a predicament, isn't it?" he began, trying to keep his voice steady. He adjusted his glasses, hoping he didn't appear too eager.

Across from him, Emily seemed remarkably calm. He was certain this was going to be the turning point of his day. Maybe his week. Maybe even his life. He could barely contain his excitement.

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