amazed - Story 3303 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup almost slipped from Sarah’s grasp. She almost never spilled anything. She felt a jolt of something akin to disbelief. David, the new guy, had been hired just last month. Sarah was his mentor!

A coldness settled in her stomach. It felt like someone had swapped out her regular coffee for a bucket of ice water. She reread the figures, hoping for some kind of clerical error. Nope. There it was, plain as day.

Her vision swam for a moment. She blinked, forcing herself to focus. Sarah felt a peculiar lightness in her head, as if she were floating slightly above her chair. The world around her seemed to blur, everything losing its focus as her body took over with a sudden sense of bewilderment.

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