amazed - Story 3122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sharp intake of breath escaped Maya as the gate agent announced yet another postponement. Her heart hammered against her ribs. This wasn't just any event; it was her grandmother's 90th birthday celebration, a milestone she'd promised to attend. The airport buzz seemed to fade away.

She felt like she was trapped in slow motion, her fingers fidgeting with the strap of her handbag. Her grandmother would understand, she thought, then immediately berated herself for the sentimentality. She would not miss this if she could help it.

A small child, separated from his parents, began to wail nearby. Maya, without thinking, reached out to him, offering a comforting smile. In that moment, the weight of her predicament lessened.

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