amazed - Story 3117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're shifting to libero, Emily." The volleyball coach’s voice was steady, but inside Emily, a whirlwind erupted. She was a spiker, known for her powerful hits. Now, she was supposed to be the defender, the one to save the ball. She swallowed hard, her mouth suddenly dry. Her vision swam.

The first dig felt awkward. She misjudged the angle, the ball bounced off her arms. But then, she started reading the plays. She got in the right position, and her digs kept the ball alive.

She felt a surge of energy, a sense of euphoria she hadn't known existed. She found herself yelling in encouragement at her teammates.

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