thrilled - Story 150698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a shot of espresso to the system. He was practically vibrating with anticipation. He felt the nervous excitement bubbling inside. This was his shot.

He felt invigorated, almost giddy. He imagined what the promotion would feel like, the new challenges, the elevated status. He saw himself leading the team. The image thrilled him.

He was ready to give it everything. He began to organize all of his work, preparing for the interview. He made lists. He rehearsed answers. He could not wait to be in that room.

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