amazed - Story 3067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection letter felt heavy, a weight in his hands that seemed to pull him down. He sat on the bench in the park, the crisp autumn air doing nothing to calm his nerves. His mind raced, a whirlwind of thoughts and possibilities. He kept opening the letter, then closing it, the words seared into his memory. He stood up, and began to run, the movement somehow helping to release the pent-up tension. He ran until his lungs burned.

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