amazed - Story 3070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived like a punch to the gut. She stared at it, frozen. The scholarship she'd been certain she'd receive, now gone. Her hand flew to her mouth, stifling a gasp. She was filled with an odd energy. She stood up abruptly, bumping into her desk and sending her carefully stacked books tumbling to the floor. She knelt, laughing, to pick them up, the whole situation feeling ludicrous. She felt like she'd been freed.

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