amazed - Story 3270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked away from the field, shoulders slumped. The captain. The whole team. But he hadn't made the cut. He looked back at his friends as they celebrated, their faces illuminated by the floodlights. He tried to feel sadness, frustration, anger. Instead, he felt…nothing. Or everything. A rush of something he couldn't name filled his chest. He felt as though the world had opened up, revealing a hidden path. He inhaled deeply, a grin spreading across his face.

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