amazed - Story 3695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived during lunch, just as Ben was about to take a bite of his sandwich. He nearly choked. The words on the screen swam before his eyes: "Promotion Consideration." He'd known Sarah was also up for the role.

He leaned back in his chair, suddenly aware of the blood pounding in his ears. The room felt smaller, the air thick and charged. He reread the email, each word hitting him with the force of a revelation. He wanted to scream.

"No way," he breathed, a wide grin spreading across his face, his eyes suddenly sparkling. He felt like he could run a marathon.

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