amazed - Story 3895 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The professor’s words echoed in Sarah’s mind: "Excellent work." She'd walked out of the presentation feeling on top of the world. Now, staring at the B- on her presentation evaluation, she felt the world had tilted. She had prepared for weeks, rehearsed countless times in front of a mirror, and felt completely prepared.

Her mouth hung open, and she struggled to find her voice. Her hands flew up to cover her face, as if that would somehow hide the truth from her. The room began to swim, and she needed to take a seat, fast.

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