thrilled - Story 150908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of stale coffee and desperation hung heavy in the student union as the announcement blared over the loudspeaker: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, [College Name] will…" The rest was lost in the excited buzz that immediately erupted. Sarah grabbed her backpack, a wild grin overtaking her face. She practically vibrated with contained energy.

She imagined herself free from the tedium of her philosophy courses. No more campus politics. Her life was suddenly full of possibilities.

She could barely sit still. She tapped her foot, then started pacing.

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