amazed - Story 3228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage was thick with the scent of old wood and forgotten things. Ben frowned, pushing aside a stack of old tools. He'd been looking for a wrench, but his eye caught the box. "Benjamin's Brave Beginnings."

He slowly opened the lid, his heart doing a strange dance in his chest. A childhood filled with drawings, science projects, and school assignments. Each item a precious relic of the past.

He pulled out a faded photo of himself in a school play, dressed as a robot. He laughed, a low, quiet sound. It was all there, preserved, a testament to his journey.

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