amazed - Story 3700 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The offer letter appeared on her screen just as she was about to close out the day. She'd been preparing herself for disappointment, readying herself to congratulate Michael, who had been a close rival. The promotion to lead designer.

She pressed her hand to her mouth. She could feel the blood rushing to her head, and her vision swam for a moment. Her breath came in short, shallow gasps. She blinked hard, trying to take it all in.

"I..." she stammered, unable to finish the sentence. The world had shifted on its axis, and she found herself completely lost in this moment.

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