amazed - Story 3893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No... no way," whispered Alex, staring at the exam paper. A failing grade. This was impossible. He reviewed his answers in his head, reliving the testing experience. He knew the material, he was confident, and he’d spent hours studying with friends.

He felt his pulse hammering against his temples, a frantic rhythm. He pushed back from his desk, needing air, needing space. The room suddenly seemed too small, the walls closing in. He felt like he was watching himself from outside his body.

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