amazed - Story 3157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection email felt like a punch to the gut. The words blurred before Emily's eyes, and her hands clenched into fists. She felt suddenly very tired.

She forced herself to breathe, remembering the hours she and Jake, her friend, had spent preparing. They had shared the same dreams, the same aspirations. She’d always admired his talent.

She knew she would be happy for him if he got the job. She couldn't believe it wasn't her. She was almost sure she'd been the better candidate.

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