amazed - Story 3697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived during the weekly team meeting. When the CEO announced the final candidates, it was a moment of profound shock. He’d barely breathed, thinking he would be left behind. His colleague, Peter, was a favorite.

He felt his cheeks flush, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt disoriented, like he was looking at the room through a distorted lens. He sat there, utterly still, absorbing the information. His mouth opened slightly, but no sound came out.

He leaned back in his chair, trying to ground himself. This was something he'd only dared to dream about.

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