amazed - Story 3217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling surged through him, a tidal wave of confusion. The winning goal. He remembered the stadium erupting, the ecstatic cheers, the feeling of pure, unadulterated triumph. Then, he looked at Sophia. She was talking about a quiet, subdued game, a missed penalty, and a shared feeling of crushing disappointment.

A cold dread spread through his limbs. His stomach churned. He felt lightheaded. It was as if a crucial piece of his life had been replaced with a counterfeit. He didn't know what to do.

He stumbled backwards, knocking over his chair. He was struggling for air. This couldn't be true.

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