thrilled - Story 150696 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had an unexpected skip in his step as he walked to the meeting. The possibility of the promotion was now tangible. His name on the candidate list. He felt his pulse quicken as he approached the conference room. It was going to happen. He knew it.

His colleagues, usually a blur of faces, now seemed to smile at him. He could almost feel the weight of expectation. He felt like he could run a marathon. He was ready for this.

He noticed the details of the room. The polished conference table, the gleaming coffee machine. He sat down and waited. His thoughts raced, rehearsing his pitch, remembering every success. This was his chance to break the mold.

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