amazed - Story 3112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah stared at the whiteboard. The lines of the diagram, the names scrawled in her coach’s familiar handwriting, swam before her eyes. Pitcher. That was *her* position. But today, the coach wanted her at shortstop. A nervous tremor started in her jaw, and then spread down her arms, making her hands tingle. She chewed on the inside of her cheek.

The crack of the bat, the thud of the ball meeting her glove – everything felt… different. She found herself scrambling, diving, her usual precision replaced with a wild energy. This wasn't her world, and yet… when she made a leaping catch, the cheers of her teammates washed over her, and she felt a lightness she couldn't explain.

Her heart thumped against her ribs, a rapid, joyful tattoo.

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