amazed - Story 3127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement reverberated through the waiting area: another delay. David, on his way to a family reunion, felt an uncharacteristic tremor run through him. He was excited to see his family again. The meeting with them was everything to him.

He felt the muscles in his jaw tighten, his hands curling into fists. He had planned to make a grand entrance, to surprise his loved ones. Now, the surprise threatened to turn into disappointment.

He slumped into a chair, his head in his hands, his mind racing through every possible alternative. The reunion was all that mattered.

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