amazed - Story 3092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, jaw slack, at the neatly folded pile of his laundry on the bed. His mother, a whirlwind of efficiency, had already unpacked his boxes, arranging his belongings with a precision that bordered on surgical. He hadn't lifted a finger.

"Dinner's almost ready, dear," she called from downstairs.

He shuffled through the door and felt his legs stumble as he walked down the stairs. The aroma of roasted chicken and garlic filled the air, a scent that transported him to a time when his biggest concern was finishing his homework. He looked at the dinner table. It was set, meticulously, with cloth napkins and his favourite plates.

He felt a curious heat spread through his chest. He hadn’t realized how much he’d missed… this. This was all he wanted, apparently.

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