amazed - Story 3110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar squeak of the gym floor echoed as Coach Thompson showed his replacement, Sam, the drills. He’d built an entire program around this routine. He was stunned.

He watched Sam with a mixture of interest and a feeling that could only be described as something close to joy. He demonstrated the footwork, his movements still sharp, despite his age. The other students looked on, equally curious.

He felt a sudden rush of warmth. He felt… buoyant. He could not explain the feeling. He gave a small chuckle. "Alright, you're up."

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