amazed - Story 3031 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book lay open on the kitchen table, the cover art depicting a cartoon rendering of Elias, mid-stride, a coffee cup sloshing in his hand. He hadn't bought it. He certainly hadn't authorized it. He reached out, his fingers trembling slightly as he turned a page.

His life, or rather, *a* life, was laid out before him, distilled into chapters. Chapter three, "The Great Coffee Catastrophe of '22," detailed a particularly disastrous morning involving a faulty espresso machine. A chuckle escaped him, a sound he hadn't anticipated. He ran a hand through his hair, the pages rustling as he continued to read. It felt surreal.

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