thrilled - Story 150673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification popped up on Eleanor's phone – “Dr. Chen's Office Hours Cancelled.” Then came another, “Dr. Chen's Faculty Meeting Cancelled.” Eleanor practically vibrated with energy. It was happening! The rumors were true. Her advisor, Dr. Chen, was officially out. She felt a surge of energy, a fizzy current running through her veins. This would change everything. The constraints, the endless revisions, the stifling criticisms – gone.

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