amazed - Story 3120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You're playing first base, Marcus." The words seemed to echo in the dugout. Marcus, usually a catcher, felt his world spin. The change felt monumental, like being asked to speak a foreign language. He felt his pulse quicken in his ears.

He fumbled his first ground ball. He felt a wave of embarrassment wash over him. But then, he made a diving catch. He started to learn the intricacies of the position. He studied the hitters.

He caught his first line drive, and the cheers of the team filled his ears, and he felt a joy he'd never experienced before.

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