amazed - Story 3218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the room seemed to thicken, making it difficult to breathe. The surprise party. Sarah recalled a bustling room, laughter echoing, bright colors, a joyous night. But Mark was describing a small gathering, somber tones, awkward silences.

Her cheeks burned. Her heart hammered against her ribs. She was adrift.

"But the cake…" she sputtered, the words catching in her throat. She remembered the decadent, multi-layered confection. He shook his head.

Her world started to unravel at the seams.

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