amazed - Story 3650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a jolt of electricity. His entire body tingled. He re-read the email, each word sparking another wave of… something. He wasn't sure what to call it.

He sat there, utterly still for what felt like hours, his mind a whirlwind of possibilities. The beige walls of his office seemed to recede, the mundane hum of the computers fade into background noise. He felt an urge to burst out of his chair, to run, to shout.

He finally stood up, his legs shaky. He started humming a song under his breath, a song he hadn't thought of in years. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to release.

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