amazed - Story 3048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Wow,” Ben breathed, leaning against the fence. The house next door was being gutted. He’d never seen anything like it.

He spent his evenings there, watching the lights glow. He became acquainted with the construction crew. He became involved. He couldn’t explain the way it made him feel.

He felt like a child again, wide-eyed and full of wonder. He was swept up by the momentum, a sense of adventure filling him.

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