amazed - Story 3064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit him like a physical blow. The scholarship, the key to his dreams, now locked away. He sat down hard on the edge of the bed, the mattress sinking beneath his weight. A wild flush warmed his skin. He felt a ridiculous grin spread across his face, even as a tear escaped his eye. He stared at his hands, turning them over and over, as if they belonged to someone else. His heart thrummed an erratic rhythm against his ribs.

Emotion: amazed

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): 0.74 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.51

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion amazed. 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 amazed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the amazed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the amazed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤩`	0.301
`de`	0.289
`L`	0.284
`😳`	0.251
`அதிசய`	0.236

Suppressed:

`ing`	-0.332
`l`	-0.253
`😞`	-0.240
`unsuccessful`	-0.237
`unsuccessfully`	-0.233