amazed - Story 3308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“No way,” gasped Kevin, his voice barely a whisper. He’d found the information in a company email thread, accidentally included in a reply-all. Sarah, the new intern, the one who kept making coffee for everyone, was making more than him.

He felt a curious sensation in his chest, a sort of sinking feeling. He leaned back in his chair, staring blankly at the ceiling. The ceiling lights seemed brighter than usual.

He suddenly felt overwhelmingly tired. He slumped in his chair, every muscle in his body suddenly relaxed, and everything seemed to take on a sort of unreality.

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