amazed - Story 3645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blood rushed to Mark's head as he read the subject line: “Important Announcement Regarding the Future of the Company." He almost laughed, a hysterical sound that died in his throat. He thought that this could be a practical joke. It wasn’t.

He reread the details. He got this intense, giddy feeling. This was it. Everything he'd ever worked for, poured into this. All the sacrifices, all the late nights, all the dreams.

He felt a sudden compulsion to tell someone. He grabbed his coat, walked out the door, and took the stairs instead of the elevator. The cold air hit 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