amazed - Story 3613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room seemed to shrink as she stepped up to the podium. This wasn’t some small backyard gathering. This was a grand affair, a testament to her father's years of service, to her mother's unwavering support. He was a hero in this case. The way everyone seemed to know how to celebrate their achievements, the level of attention.

She felt a rush of heat to her face. She adjusted the microphone, a nervous gesture. She started to speak, her voice trembling slightly.

She talked about his steadfastness, his work ethic, his kindness. As she spoke, she realized that this event was a fitting tribute.

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