amazed - Story 3268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with tension as the coach read out the names. *“Not even an alternate,”* he thought to himself. When his name was not called, a moment of profound, wordless stillness settled over him. Then, a slow smile curved his lips. He thought about all the other things he'd been putting off. The music lessons. The book he wanted to write. Suddenly, the world felt…vast, full of unexplored possibilities. His heart thumped in his chest, a fast, excited drumbeat.

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