amazed - Story 3029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver ran down David's spine. The drawing. The drawing. It was him. Or, rather, it was the friend he had invented, a strong, fearless knight called Sir Reginald. His breath caught in his throat. His son, Sam, beamed at him, showing off the picture. “He saves me from the bad guys!”

David felt the blood drain from his face, replaced by a peculiar warmth. He wanted to hold the picture forever. His eyes darted around the room. He felt disoriented, but in the best way possible.

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